In the 00s, when the internet was the place you went to watch babies bite their big brother’s finger, find out what Ashton Kutcher had for breakfast or follow the Test on your holiday with those two blokes who did the Guardian’s over-by-over, someone made a gif of Rob Key, the memory of which will be instantly familiar to anyone who saw it, even two decades later.
Key was wearing a pair of leather boots and waving a cricket bat about his head while riding on the back of a capybara. There was no point trying to understand the joke. It was just that it was Key. And Key was funny.
