Honestly I don't really like Ricky Gervais's gleeful cruelty or his style of comedy, but I think the show was really good for Karl Pilkington. You could see how mousy he was in the first few episodes, miserably eating the Chinese lady's toad just because she told him to, and then partway through the first series he kind of finds his balls and he's yelling at the guy in Jordan "I'm not getting on the fucking camel!" when stuff is unreasonable beyond a certain point.

Travel is good for you.