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Raise a glass: Lin-Manuel Miranda will explain Hamilton on 'Drunk History'


Spending six years writing Hamilton and more than another year singing it must not have been enough for Lin-Manuel Miranda.

Now he's going to to get liquored up and talk about the first Treasury Secretary's famous feud with Aaron Burr on Comedy Central's Drunk History. The cable network announced Thursday that the Tony winner will be having a few rounds and narrating this fall. (Oh, how we hope we live to see this glory!)

Drunk History has already tackled Hamilton and Burr once — back before it was even a show. The dueling Founding Fathers were the subject of a 2008 short on FunnyOrDie.com. Back then, Arrested Development's Michael Cera played Hamilton to Jake Johnson's Burr. (Cera will be back this season, but it won't be to reprise the Hamilton role.)

Eleanor Roosevelt will also get the Drunk History treatment as Criminal Minds star Paget Brewster tells the story of the former first lady's friendship with Lyudmila Pavlichenko, the female, Soviet, World War II-era answer to American Sniper.

Other Season 4 guests include Dave Grohl, Liev Schreiber, Elizabeth Olsen, Green Day singer Billie Joe Armstrong, Ronda Rousey, Ed Helms, Silicon Valley's Thomas Middleditch and Veep's Tony Hale.

Drunk History returns Tuesday, Sept. 27 (Comedy Central, 10:30 ET).