Keyrock, known as "The Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer," is a recurring character created by Jack Handey and is played by Phil Hartman on Saturday Night Live from 1991 to 1996. He is a caveman with the eyebrows of a neanderthal who fell into a glacial abyss, or "Big Giant Hole in Ice", during the Ice Age, thus preserving his body well enough for scientists to melt it in 1988. He then studied law in Oklahoma City University Law School. Characters exploit their humble origins with covert cynicism little to manipulate others.
Keyrock became a defense lawyer and personal injury, and in later sketches, a politician ran for the Senate on a platform to eliminate capital gains taxes. He is portrayed as an egoist, well-dressed attorney who repeatedly claims to be a simple-minded cave man, and will use the simple folk wisdom to win his case. He also enjoys significant wealth, driving luxury cars like BMW and Range Rovers, as well as having a home on Martha's Vineyard.
Video Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer
Opening scene
One hundred thousand years ago, a caveman was hunting in the plains, when he slipped and fell into the abyss, where he froze. In 1988, he was discovered by scientists and thawed. He then studied in law school and became... The Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer!
The scene will then be accompanied by a song, beginning "He used to be a caveman...," suggests Keyrock in animal skin beating a club in his hands, "... but now he's a lawyer!" and showed Keyrock's outfit turning from animal skin to suit, and his club was replaced with hand gestures to emphasize a point: "Caveman's lawyers are not blocked!"
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Repetitive humor
The idea is that Keyrock will speak in a slick and convincing way - but clearly pretend naivet - to the jury or audience about how things in the modern world should "frighten and confuse" him. He often emphasizes the last sentence with striking quotes or cues, which underscore his obvious displeasure. He will then list some of the things that confuse him about modern life or the natural world, such as: "When I see a solar eclipse, as I went last year in Hawaii, I thought 'Oh no! Does the moon eat the sun?' I do not know because I'm a caveman - that's what I think. "This statement will look ironic, coming from someone who, for example, has just ended a cell phone conversation, or attended law school. Keyrock will always complete a rendering, however, by declaring in a blast of truth that however, "There is one thing I know...." One thing is that his client is innocent, or is entitled to several million dollars or better compensation and replace loss for injury. The jury or adviser is always swayed by Keyrock's argument, except whenever Judge announces a favorable ruling, Keyrock is distracted by several other shows such as watching a Knicks game on his portable TV ("I'm sorry, Your Honor, I'm bothered by the little guys in this magic box" ), or through a cell phone call, and the verdict must be repeated.
The scene will usually end with a small "outro" scene from "the core of the next episode" that shows Keyrock's arguments. One such scene was diverted from the usual "cave-man argument" when Keyrock was boarding a plane, told by a flight attendant that the butler had declared no more Dewar and the water would be presented to Keyrock. The flight attendant in the episode was not persuaded by Keyrock's whining that "I'm just a caveman" and that he's "scared by glyphs," and continues his work. An angry Keyrock then shouted, "Look, I'm going to sue you and all your lousy mascapists!" What happened afterwards remains to be seen, but it is one of the few cases that Keyrock does not have.
Like many sketches of Saturday Night Live at the time, "Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer" was featured as a parody of the television show. During the opening and closing of the "show," the broadcaster will list some very unusual "show" sponsors like "Big Fat Bean" ("Why eat lots of small beans when you can eat one big peanut?"); "Gas Plus" ("Actually gives you gas!"); "Dog Assassin" ("When you can not bear to make it fall asleep, it may be time to call Dog Assassin "); "Cubic Yard of Earthworms" ("What you do with it is your business"); "Wilson Ear Drill" ("We do not recommend you use ear drill, but if you insist, why not get the best!") And popular Happy Fun Ball ("still legal in 16 states - happy, it's fun, Fun Ball! ").
The sketch is a parody of a simple country boy beats city slicker genre, like the popular Matlock series where an older, Southern-type lawyer "country-boy" massacred a "big city" or a lawyer "sophisticated". Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer reverses the form by replacing the humble hero with a vibrant yuppie.
The complete list of "sponsors" of Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer includes:
- Lawn Destroyer - when you do not even care anymore.
- Cubic Yard of Earthworms - what you do with it is your business.
- Wilson Ear Drill - we do not recommend you use ear drill, but if you insist, why not get the best!
- Gas Plus - actually gives you gasoline, for those times when you feel like a joker.
- National Escort Service - if we do not get a prostitute on your doorstep within 15 minutes, you do not pay.
- Happy Fun Ball - still legal in 16 countries - this is legal, fun, it's Happy Fun Ball!
- Chile-B-Gone - soothe the inflamed eye by chili spray.
- Spider Whistle - spiders crawling as you start blowing, also working on certain ants.
- Clyde Baxter - if you are on the jury, please choose not guilty; Clyde will appreciate it.
- Dog Assassin - If you can not bear to make it fall asleep, it may be time to call "Dog Assassin."
- Big Fat Bean - Why eat hundreds of small beans when you can have one big peanut?
See also
- Recurring characters and sketches of Recurring Saturday Night
- The Jimber-Jaw Revival, short story of 1937 by Edgar Rice Burroughs about cavemen not frozen with normal intelligence but paleolithic political views
- It's About the Time (TV series), the 1960s series created and produced by Sherwood Schwartz, partly about the cave-curved time to modern times
- Iceman, a 1984 movie about a frozen cave man starring John Lone in the title role
- Encino Man, a 1992 movie about a frozen cave man starring Brendan Fraser in the title role
- GEICO Cavemen , a series of GEICO ads starting in 2004 show caved-off humans with very normal but primitive-looking intelligence, eventually spawning their own Cavemen (TV series)
- Lucan, Television series about a man raised by a wolf who finds himself caught in the way of the modern world
References
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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