After years of live performances, DVDs and Internet crazes, the members of The Damn! Show stand on the brink of another milestone: besting the current mark for the group’s longest running television series of one episode.

The shock-comedy troupe’s broadcast premiere seven years ago after a televised Sunday worship service was not followed by an encore presentation, but after cable giant MTV2 aired the first episode of the group’s new series on Friday and asked for seconds, the fivesome of University graduates has a chance to gloat at the short-sighted cable company that pulled the plug in Athens.

“Now we’re on your channel anyway,” said writer/actor Waco O’Guin.

Ironically, the same bawdy sketch “Hump-Dog,” which earned the guys the boot from their first gig on cable access, will appear in the second episode of the new show, “Stankervision,” which airs Fridays on MTV2.

“It basically is just The Damn! Show — what we’ve been doing in Athens for years,” O’Guin said of the act’s new incarnation. “If they wanted something clean, they wouldn’t have come to us.”

With sketches in last Friday’s first episode of “Stankervision” involving Siamese twins who share a butt and an intervention held by socks tired of being abused during their owner’s autoerotic habits, O’Guin and company have done nothing to change The Damn! Show recipe that first caught the eye of the cable network.

The indecent style featured in a wide range of pranks, skits and animation was a perfect fit for the network’s “Sic ‘Em Friday” lineup, said Carol Eng, MTV2’s senior vice president for programming and development.

“We saw how irreverent they were — both high and low brow,” she said.

The network signed The Damn! Show team for an eight-episode season, and though the final product has not suffered, the boys have found their move to the mainstream to come with both perks and headaches.

They now have at their disposal a crew of professionals and a budget larger than the one afforded by the credit card O’Guin’s mother lent them for the first installment of The Damn! Show.

And though the move to New York forced the guys to leave behind beloved local characters like Cherokee and Jimmy Gibberish, seasoned Manhattanites have proven more tolerant to the show’s wild man-on-the-street gags, involving such things as a mime with Tourette’s syndrome and gigantic, walking genitalia.

“You can’t really shock them,” O’Guin said. “The cops just laugh instead of throwing you in jail.”

Yet while the boys enjoy flouting common decency in broad daylight, the workload has become more taxing; after having a leisurely six months to craft each 40-minute block of The Damn! Show, O’Guin and fellow writer Roger Black must deliver eight episodes of “Stankervision” to MTV2 in one month.

But while they work to keep producing new material, the old gags have not been forgotten.

The inclusion of classic The Damn! Show sketches in the second episode — “Yucko in New Orleans,” “Inebriated the Koala” and “‘Blind Date’ with a Crack Whore” — speaks of a commitment to the group’s roots despite the changes of name and scenery.

“I don’t think anyone is going to call us sellouts,” O’Guin said. “You’ve got to make money to be sellouts — maybe for the second season.”