Comics in anti-Euro campaign

Rik Mayall, Vic Reeves and Harry Enfield are to star in a £1million advert urging Britons to reject the euro.

Mayall compares the single currency to the rise of Nazi power, by dressing up as Hitler.

He tells a Nuremburg-style rally that the euro is inevitable, only for the crowd to roar back: 'No'.

But Enfield's character Tim Nice-But-Dim has a less convincing line. He doesn't want the euro because "it sounds like urine".

And Reeves plays a shopping channel presenter offering viewers a pile of euro notes as lavatory paper and admitting he prefers the loo-roll.

Others taking part inlude Jools Holland, Stlla Street's John Sessions and Phil Cornwell, Johnny Vaughan, Mick Jagger and George Best.

Campaigners hope the film will move the issue away from party politics, and appeal to younger voters in the same way Eddie Izzard has backed the pro-euro camp.

The 90-second commercial will be shown in cinemas from June, the Sun reports.

Published: 10 May 2002