Condoms haven’t really been funny since you were 11 and their main use was as an extremely durable water balloon. But nowadays, they're not so much about laughs, and if you’re looking to spend the night with something other than the Internet, they’re pretty much a must. Funny or not.
Fortunately, condoms present a universal, Dane Cook level of humor, and prophylactic advertisers worldwide have kept the mood light when talking about this serious subject. With that in mind, here are some funny condom ads from around the world, showing how different countries see sex and, more importantly, how they make it funny.
Belgium
Kind of ironic, if you think about it, that an ad for something made to prevent infections would go viral. But that’s exactly what happened to probably the most famous condom ad of all time, showing a guy whose Baby Mamma was apparently cheating on him with Satan.
United States of America
The feeling this poor girl gets at the end of this ad is kinda like that feeling you get when you realize that girl you’ve been messaging on Tinder is the not-hot one in the profile picture. But soooooo much worse.
France
Here we see a girl hooking up in a car on a deserted road with a dude we can only assume is a teenaged Hannibal Lecter, since when she asks him if he’s got a condom he pulls out... A WHOLE HUMAN INTESTINE. No idea what happens to her after she projectile vomits all over his car, but, hey Thomas Harris, we’ll come looking for royalties when we see “Silence of the Lambs: The College Years.”
UK
In an ad that would probably make Stanley Kubrick go, “Whoa, hey, too far,” 100 million dudes dressed in white roam the streets of London until they see a single female standing on a street corner, at which point they storm at her like a gang of droogs until they're stopped in their tracks by... a giant Durex condom. Because they’re sperm, see…
India
Never satisfied with a simple, 30-second PSA to promote safe sex, India instead gives us a seven-minute Bollywood musical number complete with pastel-colored condoms singing and dancing their way through the streets of India, extolling the virtues of Nirodh the condom. It's surreal, kinda creepy, and will 100% be stuck in your head for at least four days after you watch this video.
Kenya
At first you’d think the man crossing the street here is impressing this woman by showing her, “Look, I carry around condoms that can fit over a freaking umbrella!” Then you'd remember he just put a condom over an umbrella and walked away, while this woman will have to explain why she's walking around with an umbrella covered in a condom the rest of the day.
Argentina
If nothing else, you learn from this ad that the most popular flavor of chewing gum in Argentina is apparently nonoxynol-9. Yum!
Thailand
The Thais show us that “fear of buying condoms” is right up there with “commitment” and “prison showers” on the list of universal male fears. When this poor Thai dude steps up to the counter he forgets to buy beef jerkey, Cheetos, Bounce dryer sheets, and carnuba wax to mask his salacious purchase, and has to deal with the judgmental glares of the entire store.
Pakistan
Even a deeply religious nation can have a few yuks when it comes to sex among married folks, right? Like this ad where a goofy-looking dude is inexplicably married to model/actress Mathira, until he reveals it's because he packs Josh condoms. Or he’s funny like Kevin James.
Bangladesh
Another ad from a Muslim country markets condoms to married people, where a husband pretends to be ill so he can get some “I’m about do die” sympathy sex from his smoking hot “nurse,” who later turns out to be his wife. The beginning of this ad might be the only time you won’t equate “getting sick in Bangladesh” to immediate death.
Australia
If you listen to that toolbag who came back from study abroad and made Australia sound like a nonstop, sun-soaked orgy of beautiful blonde people with sexy accents having sex in the middle of drug stores, this commercial might be believable.
Belgium
The Belgians combine two of their greatest exports here: chocolate and clever condom commercials. Not so sure we wanna see the ad they come out with for beer-flavored condoms, though, or anything involving Jean-Claude Van Damme.
United States
There’s actually another version of this ad that involves a guy going over to his girlfriend’s house, but Trojan decided to raise the stakes in the sequel that shows that even people who make “screwing up a wedding to a Senator’s daughter”-level bad decisions still aren’t dumb enough to not use condoms.