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Jesda
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Best travel show EVER. Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant send their Homer Simpson-like friend all around the world, forcing him to do touristy stuff and mingle with the locals without a clue of the language or customs. They show him a picture, say "You're going here" and drop him off.

Unlike other travel shows where the host comments on how beautiful the people and culture are, this guy genuinely hates most of what he's seen.

He landed in Israel (where they captured and kidnapped him just to screw with him), stayed in a cave in Jordan, ate in a rural Chinese village, saw the Taj Mahal in India, set of fireworks in Mexico, and went into the pyramids in Egypt. He stormed out of his hotel room in India (they intentionally book him at horrible places) because it smelled like feces. His best observation was of Chinese street food: "there's no line separating the insects from the food".

He actually liked Mexico, where they made him fight with a boxer and got a bit of a beating.

Of the pyramids, he said "Four thousand years! These are the oldest things in the history of the world" to which Ricky replied, "Oh really, so where did the people that built them come from?"

He's going to Rio De Janiero during Carnivale and the first thing he asked was "Uhh, there's a lot of gays arent there? Do I have to be a part of that? I'm not doing anything for the cameras!" They put him in a crappy hostel with water that was so dirty he refused to bathe in it, so he had to befriend a transmission for a nicer place to stay.

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Text messages cost him 70 pence to receive when he's outside his home market in the UK, so they tease him by sending messages that say "70p" just to run up his phone bill.

http://www.eztv.it/


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Razi
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"Karl's got a head like a f**kin' orange."

It's such a hilarious show.
I think I laughed at episode 7 the most.

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Holy crap...how have I not heard of this? I'm a travel show WHORE. Anthony Bourdain is literally my personal hero.
Check this s*** out
http://www.travelchannel.com/TV_Shows/A ... e_Universe
WEBSITE DOWN. NOoo.

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Jesda
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Animated Tony! I see potential there.

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Razi
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I really hope they do a second series, despite Karl's refusals.


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