Barack Obama’s never gonna give you up. YouTube user Hugh Atkin pushed the rickroll meme a step further with Barack Roll — an ingeniously edited video (embedded) that mashes together snippets of Obama ...

Working with creative agency Golin, Specsavers tapped into a universally recognizable cultural phenomenon: Rick Astley’s 1987 classic, Never Gonna Give You Up. The song, synonymous with the viral ...

Jefferson Smith loves a good political joke. Early last year, the then-freshman Oregon House member from Portland was getting ready for bed when he and his wife, Katy, began bantering back and forth ...

A genius student "Rick rolled" his teacher - hiding Rick Astley lyrics in an essay about quantum physics. Brainy Sairam Gudiseva wrote eighties smash Never Gonna Give You Up into his coursework. His ...

The Foo Fighters, who were headlining Tokyo’s Summer Sonic festival, brought a meme to life on Sunday when they invited 80’s pop icon Rick Astley onstage to sing a grunge version of his “Never Gonna ...

Oregon has been enormously jealous and upset ever since we Californians decided to turn our entire State into an elaborate performance art project by electing an Austrian body-builder to our highest ...

Today, July 27, Rick Astley’s signature song “Never Gonna Give You Up” turns 35. And just like its lyrics—Never gonna give you up/ Never gonna let you down/ Never gonna run around and desert you—the ...