The press tour had been canceled. Everything is canceled. But as anyone familiar with the comedy of Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim would appreciate, there was something almost too appropriate about having to view their faces as degraded images on a stuttering, grainy video stream amid a general feeling of discomfort.

That description could just as easily fit “Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!,” the innovative and vaguely disturbing sketch comedy-cum-video art series that ran on Adult Swim from 2007 to 2010. It made cult heroes out of its two creators, better known as simply Tim and Eric, whose new series, “Beef House,” officially premieres on Adult Swim just after midnight Sunday (and after a surprise online debut of the pilot a week early).

On a mutually sequestered afternoon last week — with the new show in the offing and press interviews relegated to Skype — the description also characterized a three-way conversation, in which everyone was a little stir crazy but seemingly grateful for something fun to talk about.

“Should we do some comedy for you?” Heidecker asked. He was calling from his mother’s place in Southern California. Wareheim was calling from his own home in Los Angeles, where he’d been hanging with his cats.