John Lehr John Lehr – the original Geico caveman. His character got its start on a Geico TV ad set as a boom mike operator. The caveman reacts to an onscreen talent who says Geico's tagline, “so easy even a caveman can do it” by dropping his boom mike, saying “Not cool!” and then storming off.

Remind Me Commercial usage He spots a billboard for GEICO featuring an overly silly representation of a caveman, along with the insulting phrase, "So easy, a caveman could do it." The album version of "Remind Me" plays in the background throughout.

You wouldn't know it to look at him out of makeup, but this comedic performer, writer and producer got his first break playing the ever-famous, metrosexual cavemen that somehow eluded extinction while developing a taste for racquet ball and “duck with mango salsa,” and was insulted by GEICO's ad tagline, “So easy, a ...

Former GEICO 'Caveman' hired to teach at University of Southern Indiana. English is so easy a caveman can teach it. EVANSVILLE, Ind. - The beloved Caveman from the GEICO commercials just got a new gig doing "mammoth" things at a southern Indiana university.

THEY are often depicted as dim-witted evolutionary losers, but Neanderthals were not driven to extinction by their lack of brains, a new study suggests. Instead, it is more likely that they disappeared 40,000 years ago due to interbreeding and assimilation with early human ancestors, scientists believe.

Caveman (film)

The idea for the Gecko grew from a creative session at GEICO's ad agency, the Martin Agency in Richmond, Virginia. The name "GEICO" was often mispronounced "Gecko," and as the brainstorming began, a quick doodle of a gecko appeared.

David Hulin (born 1975) is a British born Animation Director and VFX Director based in New York, best known for creating iconic animated characters such as the GEICO Gecko, Post Office Ants (UK), Nigel the Xyzal Owl, The Lactaid Cow, as well as creatively leading many other iconic campaigns for Fedex, GE, Pepsi, M&Ms, ...

The Martin Agency The Martin Agency and GEICO are credited with pioneering a new way of advertising in the insurance category in the early 1990s, spawning a list of imitators in the category.

In the Paleolithic period (roughly 2.5 million years ago to 10,000 B.C.), early humans lived in caves or simple huts or tepees and were hunters and gatherers. They used basic stone and bone tools, as well as crude stone axes, for hunting birds and wild animals.

The era that most people think of when they talk about "cavemen" is the Paleolithic Era, sometimes referred to as the Stone Age (though actually the Paleolithic is but one part of the Stone Age). This era extends from more than 2 million years into the past until sometime between 40,000 and 5,000 years ago.

Neanderthals vs Homo sapiens Because many Neanderthal fossils and artefacts have been found in caves, the species became synonymous with the idea of cavemen.