In 2004, he moved to 1Live on WDR as a presenter and comedian. There he invented the column ""Lukas' Tagebuch" (Luka's Diary)," a parody of the Cologne professional soccer player Lukas Podolski. Podolski sued against it without success and refused interview requests from ARD during the 2006 World Cup. For the 2008 European Soccer-Championship, Böhmermann launched the podcast "Pod-Olski - Der EM-Podcast von Lukas", which made it to the top of the iTunes podcast charts. In the follow-up series "Lukas' WG," Böhmermann moved his main character into a shared apartment with the mascot of 1. FC Köln, billy goat "Hennes".