The TV Zone

If Showtime’s “Penn & Teller: [Bullfeathers!]” doesn't provide enough highly exercised opinion for you, try the new Penn Says channel on Sony’s still-in-beta Crackle video site.

As Penn Jillette admits while ranting into his own high-def camera, he's fairly ubiquitous on talk shows and has “a lot of opportunity to speak my mind,” even on subjects like politics, “because I’m very, very qualified for that, being a juggler and carny trash.” But these two-minute-ish opinion pieces -- 10 of them posted so far, to a total 100,000 views -- are utterly unfiltered and, occasionally, unintelligible.

Usually, however, they’re knowledgeably smart, as Penn can be, riffing on everything from the scariness of Hillary Clinton to the cynicism of Dr. Phil meeting Britney --

-- to “weather opportunists,” to the zoo tiger eating a guy. (OK, that last one actually makes no sense at all.) They’re definitely low-def high-def, shot by Penn holding his camera at arm’s length whether strolling outside his desert home or just sitting around.

Crackle otherwise collects sketch comedy, animation, other video debris and those fun Minisodes (five-minute episode abridgements) from Sony studio shows including “Police Woman,” “TJ Hooker,” “The Partridge Family,” “Facts of Life,” “Dilbert” and “Ricki Lake.” Worth a look when you’ve got time to waste.