The show featured him as the host, his good friend Rick Kavanian, Christian Tramitz, and Diana Herold as a dancer and occasional actress in the skits.

The show featured many different themes, including stereotypical gay archetypes in a Star Trek parody, an homage to westerns, and of the Austrian royal, Elisabeth of Bavaria, known as Sissi.

The first, the 2001 Der Schuh des Manitu ("Manitou's Shoe") was seen by over 11.7 million people, one of the most successful German films to date.

In January 2008, Variety reported that Herbig was set to film a live-action adaptation of animated series Vicky the Viking.

The movie depicts the balloon escape of the Strelzyk and Wetzel families, from East to West Germany in 1979.