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Mr.Chill
Aug 29, 2006
Public access TV was drugs for 80's and 90's kids. You got to see insane people who thought they were undiscovered Hollywood stars flail around on horrible pre-Ikea display rooms in front of cameras with dusty lenses.

Share your best, worst, and favorite examples of the madness.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obiDOc2kM5Q

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GOTTA STAY FAI
Mar 24, 2005

~no glitter in the gutter~
~no twilight galaxy~
College Slice
Any excuse to post whatever the hell this is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdzLFNELeCI

ihatechesspieces
Jan 2, 2013

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZDt-YLcWKY

BogDew
Jun 14, 2006

E:\FILES>quickfli clown.fli
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LNJn0JI0oE

someone awful.
Sep 7, 2007


one of the few things i miss about having cable is watching the vonhummer hour on public access. apparently there are full episodes of his show on youtube tho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-Bw6LIT8lE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teGJ48vGBhk

Sponge Baathist
Jan 30, 2010

by FactsAreUseless
Black People Sushi

Nice Guy Patron
Jun 29, 2015
Vonhummer was great.

Remember Jim Spagg?

:nws:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKqY8dqcSNY

Nice Guy Patron has a new favorite as of 10:58 on May 4, 2016

someone awful.
Sep 7, 2007


twofive1 posted:

Vonhummer was great.

Remember Jim Spagg?

:nws:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKqY8dqcSNY

flipping through channels and stumbling upon a weird naked dude playing guitar is not something that is easily forgotten. holy moly gorgonzoly

DONKEY SALAMI
Jun 28, 2008

donkey? donkey?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ik92jA50a4A

I remember reading about this one

Not work safe!! Not safe for anyone!!!

It is called satan at large. Satanic pro Nazi. Curse words. Everything.

twoday
May 4, 2005



C-SPAM Times best-selling author
Let's paint TV is the best. There are many episodes and each one is half an hour long. All can be found on YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMYVof9sTGk

SEX HAVER 40000
Aug 6, 2009

no doves fly here lol
Seattle classic Jerkbeast.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BKpVuDHVxQ

A demon and two weirdos take calls and insult people. Occasionally they play lovely punk songs under band names like Blood Butt, Anus Pussy and Steaming Wolf Penis. They released a movie that actually ruled, too.

OldTennisCourt
Sep 11, 2011

by VideoGames
So after watching a lot of these I'm wondering something. Were there no rules on public access channels? Like I notice a few of these, particularly Jerkbeast, have a poo poo ton of foul language, you could just do that?

moms friend from work
Mar 28, 2010
I'M THE WURST

OldTennisCourt posted:

So after watching a lot of these I'm wondering something. Were there no rules on public access channels? Like I notice a few of these, particularly Jerkbeast, have a poo poo ton of foul language, you could just do that?

After a certain time I think you could just put whatever the hell you wanted up. I have very vivid memories of channel surfing to the Burlington VT area pubic access and catching a cross burning/klan rally and then a bizarre sing along with some skin head in a basement about "Mr. Happy" coming to town to purge minorities. Haven't seen anything that awful since then so maybe they wrote some new policies after the 90s.

twoday
May 4, 2005



C-SPAM Times best-selling author
Why do you guys talk about this only in the past tense, these things still exist

Zogo
Jul 29, 2003

OldTennisCourt posted:

So after watching a lot of these I'm wondering something. Were there no rules on public access channels? Like I notice a few of these, particularly Jerkbeast, have a poo poo ton of foul language, you could just do that?

Think of it like a live concert or Youtube standards. There are still rules but there aren't any advertisers complaining.


You can swear on Youtube too. Heh..

Improbable Lobster
Jan 6, 2012

What is the Matrix 🌐? We just don't know 😎.


Buglord
I recommend watching the documentary UHF

OldTennisCourt
Sep 11, 2011

by VideoGames
Jerkbeast is the dumbest poo poo ever but it's amazingly funny. The best are the moments when caller gets one up on him and he just lets out a stuttered "SHUT UP!".

Ride The Gravitron
May 2, 2008

by FactsAreUseless

OldTennisCourt posted:

Jerkbeast is the dumbest poo poo ever but it's amazingly funny. The best are the moments when caller gets one up on him and he just lets out a stuttered "SHUT UP!".

That first episode was good. I'm gonna check out the others now

Chrpno
Apr 17, 2006

I could watch these disasters all day. These out-of-focus retards gave us Tom Green, which gave us Jackass and everything else, and eventually looped right back around to Tim & Eric.

There was plenty of opportunities for pranking too, New York lets loose on Ken Sander:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUBB6jdzsD8

4:45 - "Dinkins is a lousy nigga" :laffo:

(with bonus Letterman parody at the end)

Zogo
Jul 29, 2003


I'd watch a ton more CNN and Fox News if they took live calls like this.


:lol:

Ellie Crabcakes
Feb 1, 2008

Stop emailing my boyfriend Gay Crungus

OldTennisCourt posted:

So after watching a lot of these I'm wondering something. Were there no rules on public access channels? Like I notice a few of these, particularly Jerkbeast, have a poo poo ton of foul language, you could just do that?
Not quite.

http://www.apnewsarchive.com/1999/Court-Says-Clown-Was-Obscene/id-cf2f990a7ec9b1b44f494e30bafa52e6

Rough Lobster
May 27, 2009

Don't be such a squid, bro
Gorgeous George

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtaAYoZES0k

He is a weirdo and incredibly offputting creep who had a public access show of terribleness for a while. Notably SA pranked him a ton back in the 2000's with on the air calls and such.

DicktheCat
Feb 15, 2011

Everything is Terrible is a goldmine of this poo poo: https://m.youtube.com/#/user/EVERYTHINGlSTERRIBLE. Just pick nearly any random thing.

Memoryhole is by the same folks but is somewhat different content.

Dreadwroth
Dec 12, 2009

by R. Guyovich
Memoryhole is like if someone found a bunch of home movies from their "wacky" relatives in some suburb in Kentucky. Its so goddamn weird.

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doodlebugs
Feb 18, 2015

by Lowtax
better get prepared!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8XipaFDJlA


:ohdear:

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