I know it’s not your point, but God that skit was so funny. The obvious joke would be to make the unfrozen caveman lawyer dumb and a fish out of water, and draw the humor from that. The way Phil Hartman plays him as a smart, smarmy, self-satisfied huckster manipulating the jury through cornpone analogies is brilliant.
I am not that big a fan of SNL and haven’t really watched it for years, but I always thought Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer was a character of genius. The idea, which would probably work pretty well, still makes me chuckle decades later. There are a dozen or so similar things from that show that still make me chuckle, probably not more than that.
Since this thread already started with a political bent, I will mention that I have long nurtured the theory that Tucker Carlson is actually a still-alive Phil Hartmann still doing his “Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer” shtick.
“I’m just a caveman! Your ‘normal demographic change’ frightens me! Now get me a double bourbon!”