Blip.TV is hosting classic episodes of the fantastic Weird TV, a comedy series aired in 1995 on Canadian television (and in some of Los Angeles). It’s sort of a post-modern surrealist satire of the landscape of television, a grand skewering of modern culture. It’s absurdist comedy at its best, utterly inventive and joyful and its frenetic pacing insures that if you’re not into one piece, the next is sure to soon follow.

A decent synopsis from the Toronto Star circa 1995 (to be read with in the guise of Rod Serling):

Imagine it’s late night and you’re home alone. In a sudden fit of gluttony you order a pepperoni pizza and wolf it down while reading the National Enquirer. Then, overcome with lethargy, you nod off. Before long, you’re roaming through a splintered, hallucinatory universe where nightmares are studded with shards of reality. In this realm, freakish people eagerly describe the most cockeyed aspects of their fractured lives. Random sounds drone in your ears. Locales shift with abrupt and frenzied urgency. Your view is periodically assaulted by haphazard images plucked from newscasts, home movies and cartoons. Now the strangest thing of all: What you’re experiencing is not some dream but an actual weekly exercise in video surrealism – A Sort of 60 Minutes on Acid called Weird TV.

The drug metaphor is apt, but only small segments feel like 60 minutes. A more felicitous comparison might be to early MTV crossed with Comedy Central, but then there are segments with crude muppets or recreations of lo-budget sixties sci-fi. You just have to see it.

As with most great Internet finds, I stumbled upon Weird TV by clicking on a link embedded in another story, in this case Laughing Squid’s obituary of San Francisco “car activist teacher prankster” Tom Kennedy. Weird TV’s homepage provides a decent sampling of many of their decent segments, but be warned that not all of the links are active. And then there are the episodes at Blip.TV.