I stumbled onto this show. It was the one where Gerhardt gets hooked on coca and is kidnapped by militant rebels. I was fascinated, asking myself what the heck I was watching. I soon saw more and was floored. I was none to surprised to then learn that Tom Stern was behind this show. That explained why it was so funny...well at least to a degree. He's Alex Winter's (ya know...Bill from Bill&Ted) college buddy. They had a great show called The Idiot Box back in the day on MTV and made a major motion picture called Freaked (also great) that got totally screwed over by their studio and was never really released properly.The world needs more of his kind of humor. Too bad about 10 years ago good comedy (kind of like music) just went BYE-BYE! I'm thinking Get a Life and late 80's SNL. Lots of intelligent surreal humor back in the late 80's/early 90's. I blame Seinfeld (which I love, of course.) After him every sitcom had to be about four people sitting around their apartment. Thank goodness for Conan I guess.This show is for smart people who like wacked out comedy. God bless you.

My husband and I caught this show late at night on Comedy Central and have been hooked ever since! I've even programmed it into my Tivo so that I can watch it every time it comes on. For some reason CC doesn't like to air this show at a reasonable hour, so I'm forced to record it. I know that doesn't help for the ratings of the show, but there's no other way for me to be able to watch it. My husband always talks about how he wants to go on trips with Gerhard. We both think that it would be very cool to hang out with the camera man while the show is being taped, just to see how it's all done behind the scenes.I love the humor of the writers and how Gerhard interacts with all of the people he meets! I highly recommend this show to anyone that loves true comedy! Good job guys! Maybe it'll come back some day, like Family Guy...

"Gerhard Reinke's Wanderlust" was a short-lived show on Comedy Central (yes, I know that's a redundancy) about some German guy who mixed his v's and w's and often resorted to gimmicks and vulgar humor, like the...well, everything, actually. Reinke travels the world, most often to dangerous impoverished areas and he struggles to find things funny to do. Sometimes he succeeds, but usually he fails, and ends up just making fun of foreign people for the remaining ten minutes of the show. Hovewer, the show is watchable, with a rare burst of laughter, and the main character is interesting, especially when in extreme pain, and indeed, this is a common theme. VERDICT: ** of *****

I was lucky enough to catch an all episode marathon (read: 5) of this show a couple months ago on quite late at night. At first, I didn't know what to make of it but after seeing the Andes/Bolivia episode I knew that this had risen to my top ten TV show list. The show is in the "mockumentary" style of Christopher Guest's movies (Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show, A Mighty Wind) and Rob Reiner's Spinal Tap. The humor isn't always spot on, but the humorous repetition of certain gags is reminiscent of The Simpsons. I was quite surprised to see that the show was produced by the same people that produced Crank Yankers and The Man Show. Another commentator mentioned that there are obvious correlations in the humor, but aside from a couple genital jokes it's pretty clean and not as course as that of the other Comedy Central shows. If you're lucky enough to catch an episode, and appreciate dry, off-color wit, I'm sure you'll enjoy the show! I taped a couple of shows when I had the chance because it's not the easiest show to explain: you just have to see it. And those I've shown it to have been quite pleased!