He also visits some pretty off-beat places and definitely doesn’t join the tourist trail. Bourdain’s whole “be a traveller not a tourist” thing is a bit smug but I can forgive him for that. I prefer No Reservations to his current show, Parts Unknown, as it seems to take itself a bit less seriously. Travel Man features another travel TV host, Richard Ayoade, who it seems would rather not be travelling. He teams up with a different celebrity each week and together they spend 48 hours in cities across Europe (with a couple of further flung destinations thrown in too). It’s generally really funny, but the level depends greatly on the “other celebrity” (often comedians who are really only famous in the UK). The Misadventures of Romesh Ranganathan (and other shows) Ayoade himself has a style all of his own and is pretty funny. Romesh Ranganathan is a British comedian of Sri Lankan decent who falls into the “reluctant traveller” category. The first season of his show Asian Provocateur shows him on a trip to Sri Lanka for the first time (mainly getting to know his family rather than travelling) while the second follows the same format only this time in the USA. Just Another Immigrant sees Romesh return to America to try and make it as a comedian. For The Misadventures of Romesh Ranganathan, he heads off to some less common travel destinations including Haiti, Albania and Ethiopia.
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