Sean 'Diddy' Combs shut down the entire set of Saturday Night Live - only to be disrupted by Will Ferrell, one of the show stars has claimed.
SNL is the long-running American late night comedy show that pulls in the world's biggest stars for amusing sketches and live performances. Charli XCX, Ariana Grande and Michael Keaton have been recent guest hosts of the show - which is broadcast on NBC in the USA on Saturday nights.
But back in 1998, Combs was a star performer for the show - taking to the stage to sing a six minute medley of hits from when he was best known as Puff Daddy. The musician has been behind bars since September after he was arrested in New York city on a number of charges including racketeering and sex trafficking.
The musician has plead not guilty to all charges held against him but he is expected to remain behind bars until his trial - which is scheduled to begin in May next year. And while Combs's life behind bars is far from glamorous, back in his glory days he used to act like a complete diva, according to SNL star Ana Gasteyer.
The 57-year-old Mean Girls star was one of the main comedians working on the show from 1996 until 2002 and has reflected on working alongside Combs while chatting on the Las Culturistas podcast. She claimed: "[He] of course, like, shut down the whole building. You can tell like the five a**holes in the six years that I was there when they would be like."
She continued: "So and so is in the building, everybody stay in your dressing rooms. Which is applicable if you're a presidential candidate. But apart from that, really, it's my house. For P. Diddy, he demanded a totally closed set."
Combs closed the set while rehearsing his six-minute musical performance - with the rehearsals taking place the Thursday before the May 9th episode - which was hosted by X Files star David Duchovny alongside Will Ferrell, who worked as a comedian on the show from 1995 until 2002. Anna continued: "[Will] went on down the stairs, and he marched right in. And 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 [Will in character as Ron is] walking around, looking really disoriented."
She continued: "It is the greatest thing that's ever happened because what a deserved person to have their Kashmir moment interrupted by Ron, and [Diddy] 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.'"
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