Ana Gasteyer has claimed Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs demanded the Saturday Evening Are living set be “shut down” when he accomplished on the demonstrate as a musical visitor in the 1990s.
At some stage in an appearance on the Las Culturistas podcast on Wednesday, the actress recalled how the now-disgraced hip-hop mogul requested the “whole building” be closed when he seemed on the prolonged-operating TV sketch programme in Might possibly goal 1998.
“You can tell like the five a**holes in the six years that I was there (between 1996 and 2002) when they would be like, ‘So and so is in the building, everybody stay in your dressing rooms.’ Which is applicable if you’re a presidential candidate,” she acknowledged. “But apart from that, really, it’s my house. For P. Diddy, he demanded a totally closed set.”
Gasteyer went on to expose how Will Ferrell made up our minds to “march” into Combs’s rehearsal as a persona named Ron on the Thursday sooner than the demonstrate aired at the advice of some of the writers.
The rapper had been rehearsing his 1998 notice Reach With Me, which samples the 1975 Led Zeppelin music Kashmir, at the time.
“I have the video from the control room where Sean Combs is rapping with like, ‘Da-na-na, da-na-na, da-na-na, da-na-na’ behind him. And Ron’s walking around, looking really disoriented (in character),” the 57-year-extinct remembered. “It is the greatest thing that’s ever happened because what a deserved person to have their Kashmir moment interrupted by Ron, and (Combs) really did not roll with it. He was very uncomfortable, but it was also just like, the artifice of all that faux importance.”
“Like what’s gonna happen? You’re gonna walk into the studio and you’re gonna be like, ‘I’m in the studio. I work here,'” she persisted.
Beforehand, Ferrell shared a identical myth at some stage in an interview for Vulture in 2020.
“Someone said, ‘Ron should go up onstage,’ and before everyone turned to see, I had sprinted out the door,” he recalled at the time.
In September, Combs became arrested and charged with sex trafficking, racketeering, and transportation to interact in prostitution.
The Bad Boy Data founder, who pleaded no longer responsible to the costs, stays in federal custody whereas ready for trial.
Representatives for SNL and Combs bear no longer but spoke back to Gasteyer’s claims.
