I do not observe Christmas, and do my best to avoid all its attendant hoopla. And I didn’t grow up watching “Pee-wee’s Playhouse,” a show for which I was a bit outside the target demographic when it ...

For those of us who were sitting around the television in 1988, Christmas at Pee Wee’s Playhouse was certainly unlike anything that we had ever seen. That year, holiday specials ran rampant over ...

Danny Elfman, Devo and the B-52s were among the guests joining host Patton Oswalt at the opening night of the Netflix Is a Joke festival. It was an “I know you’re bittersweet, but what am I?” evening.