An Idiot Abroad 3
The unintentionally hilarious but miserable abroad-hating "bald Manc twonk" Karl Pilkington is yet again forced by his best friend Ricky Gervais to go into that mysterious realm known as "abroad", but this time he is accompanied by Ricky Gervais's other friend - a dwarf named Warwick Davies, who played an ewok in Star Wars 30 years ago - and they travel the 5,000 miles from Venice to China along the same route that Marco Polo took in the 13th Century.
Just as in the two previous series, Ricky Gervais is pulling the strings from back home in Blighty (Steven Merchant was not in this new series as he was acting in a new British movie). And, just as in the two previous series, Ricky Gervais got his extreme amusement from seeing Karl suffer ("Nothing is funnier than seeing Karl, in a corner, being poked with a stick. I am that stick"). And it is exactly the same in this new series, as Karl keeps wondering why he gets given crappy hotel rooms - some of them mere bedsits - whilst Warwick gets to stay in the lap of luxury.
This new series sees the mismatched duo (Warwick knows a lot more about the culture and history of the places they visit than Karl does) taking part in, amongst other things, a masquerade ball in Venice; staying with Romany Gypsies in Macedonia; having a hilarious bit-part in a Bollywood movie in India; eating testicles at a restaurant in China; and finding themselves facing the possibility of jumping off a skyscraper in Macau. Karl even attempts to fly with a jet pack.
An Idiot Abroad is great British comedy - probably the funniest trio of documentary series ever made - and it's just as funny as the two previous series, although Ricky Gervais says that this series is his favourite. It'll be the funniest thing you'll see this year.