Superdrive has CD-R stuck

My Superdrive has a CD-R stuck inside of it and won't eject at all .
I don't know what to do. I've restarted my MBA and nothing happens on the reboot. Even when I try the reboot tricks of pressing the E or C keys while rebooting, no cd comes out.
Please help!!

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