Travel only relatively recently acquired the positive and altogether entertaining qualities which it now enjoys. Historically, the English word “travel” derives from the French word for toil (“travail”). Hundreds of years ago, it was connected with great effort, often associated with significant costs and numerous dangers along the way, regardless of whether the journey took place on land or water. Nowadays, travel is perceived completely differently, most often combined with a number of conveniences that make the experience more enjoyable, and thanks to fast transport, even in the case of business travel, it is sometimes possible to combine it with elements of tourism, which in turn is easily related to education or entertainment. It should therefore come as no surprise that stories about travel are ripe with material for comedy. Going on one’s way leads to encounters with strangers or strange places. Sometimes the visitor encroaches our own territory naturally leading to comedy of errors, absurd or unbelievable events. Literature contains countless examples where such meetings led to humorous situations or the appearance of itinerant, laughable characters such as Ichabod Crane in Washington Irving’s “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.” Strange or curious people abroad are a safe object of ridicule, because being far away and perhaps not knowing our language, since they presumably cannot get offended and retaliate. Hence, the motive of journey has been used as a safe way to write satire, e.g. criticizing domestic policies, as was in the case of Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels. Journeys often alluded to the tales of unknown or marvelous that naturally aroused curiosity in readers, and contained incredible stories of the places, people and monsters which could amuse and cause laughter. As travel abroad increased in frequency, and with the advent of film, new ways to exploit this theme emerged in cinema. It was the objective of these four chapters to explore how the notion of a homo viator, a human traveler, can be seen as a source of humor in choice examples of European film comedies. The analysis of the traveler, homo viator, was greatly facilitated by the employment of the tenets of a person at play, as the two were revealed to share numerous characteristics.