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A packed Montalban theater in Hollywood on Thursday night received a riveting history lesson — of sorts.

Derek Waters and an all-star cast, including Colin Hanks, Evan Rachel Wood, Jack McBrayer and Seth Rogen, performed a live reading of the Emmy-nominated Drunk History episode "Are You Afraid of the Drunk?"

It was a first-of-its-kind event for the Comedy Central program that just finished its sixth season, which earned three Emmy nominations: Outstanding variety sketch series, outstanding directing (Waters) for a variety series and outstanding picture editing for variety programming (John Cason).

The idea — which came to show co-creator Waters ...

Many American filmgoers are fans of Edgar Wright's luminous zombie send-up Shaun Of The Dead and his action-flick parody Hot Fuzz, but not nearly enough Americans are familiar with the hilarious BBC show that paved the way for his (as well as his leading men Simon Pegg and Nick Frost's) giant leap onto the big screen. Originally pitched as "a cross between The Simpsons, The X-Files and Northern Exposure," Spaced follows the colorful and surreal misadventures of Tim (Pegg) and Daisy (Hynes) who constantly discover new unproductive ways to kill time while trying to figure out what they want out of life.

If you are reading this blog, then you are probably one of the approximately 900 people who sent in for a chance to win tickets to this incredible show- the Spaced Marathon with director Edgar Wright and stars Simon Pegg and Jessica Hynes live in person!

There...

Many American filmgoers are fans of Edgar Wright's luminous zombie send-up Shaun Of The Dead and his action-flick parody Hot Fuzz, but not nearly enough Americans are familiar with the hilarious BBC show that paved the way for his (as well as his leading men Simon Pegg and Nick Frost's) giant leap onto the big screen. Originally pitched as "a cross between The Simpsons, The X-Files and Northern Exposure," Spaced follows the colorful and surreal misadventures of Tim (Pegg) and Daisy (Hynes) who constantly discover new unproductive ways to kill time while trying to figure out what they want out of life.

If you are reading this blog, then you are probably one of the approximately 900 people who sent in for a chance to win tickets to this incredible show- the Spaced Marathon with director Edgar Wright and stars Simon Pegg and Jessica Hynes live in person!

There...