South African condom promos

The New Yorker interviews screenwriter/condom promoter Brent Quinn, whose TV spots have become "a cult sensation in South Africa".

The Three Amigos are talking prophylactics. They have been appearing for the past few months, as often as twenty times a day, in a series of animated public-service announcements on the South African Broadcasting Corporation. Their names are Shaft, Dick, and Stretch. Shaft is tall and black, and wears a backward-facing baseball cap. He speaks in a deep baritone. Dick is white, with an open Hawaiian shirt, and he talks like a surfer dude. Stretch is short, squat, and blue, with a Hispanic-sounding voice. (Quinn is partial to Stretch, whom he calls “an eager little chap.”) Each of them cares principally about getting laid. According to Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the Amigos are “wonderfully human-like characters.”

(Link snagged from Amygdala.)

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