Ever since ABC first announced its plans to turn a series of Geico commercials into a primetime sitcom, people been howling about how utterly ridiculous this show will inevitably be, and the Internet has fueled the fire with which Cavemen will be burned at the stake, dead on arrival. Now sure, we’re biased, because we’ve worked with Nick Kroll long enough to know that anything he’s a part of stands a better-than-average chance of being incredibly funny, but hasn’t the Caveman-hatred reached a sort of hysteric frenzy that seems a little excessive considering that so many of the people trashing it haven’t even SEEN the show yet? It’s like the anti-Borat, or the non-ironic way people should have reacted to Snakes On A Plane. Maybe this is some kind of genius reverse-psychology marketing strategy by ABC to bring the expectations down so low that when the show turns out to be pretty funny, everyone flips out and thinks its amazing. I don’t know. But the show premieres tonight at 8pm, and one thing I am sure about is, if the whole series is as funny as Nick’s karaoke performance in the clip below, the hate-hype might have been a bit premature.