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I don't even know why I'm here," Andy Samberg said to me last Thursday. Others might have wondered the same thing. It was a July night in Southern California, but temperatures barely hit 64 degrees, and the event involved a journalist and a filmmaker debating global warming before an audience of celebs. The event was put on by a--wait for it--car company. And the moderator? Lexus chose the SNL star to lend a comedic spin to "The Darker Side of Green," in which Phelim McAleer, director of Not Evil Just Wrong, a doc challenging An Inconvenient Truth, duked it out with Emmy winning journalist Simran Sethi, an environmantalist. It was part of Lexus' launch of the CT 200h Hybrid, held at the Palihouse in West Hollywood and attended by Jeremy Piven, Adrien Brody, Ashton Kutcher, Sophia Bush, Kristen Bell and Mark McGrath. Before the "show," I asked Samberg what he'd do if the debate got intense. "I've got a briefcase full of Tasers and dart guns with sedatives in them," he said, "But then again, I might just shoot those into the crowd just to see what happens."

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