Will Ferrell apparently couldn’t assist himself from taking part in a humbling prank on Sean “Diddy” Combs.
The beloved funnyman was purportedly so aggravated that Combs demanded a closed set on “Saturday Night Live” to rehearse for his 1998 efficiency of “Come With Me” that he not solely crashed it, however did so in character — as a former “SNL” crew member named Ron.
His former colleague Ana Gasteyer, whose tenure from 1996 to 2002 overlapped with Ferrell’s, recalled Wednesday on the “Las Culturistas” podcast co-hosted by present “SNL” star Bowen Yang that Combs had “shut down the whole building.”
“You can tell like the five assholes in the six years that I was there when they would be like, ‘So and so is in the building, everybody stay in your dressing rooms!’” she added. “Which is applicable if you’re a presidential candidate. But apart from that, really, it’s my house.”
Ferrell, who was dressed as Ron that day as a part of an ongoing bit to amuse his colleagues, was naturally greater than prepared to go massive and, as Gasteyer defined on the podcast, jumped on the likelihood when “they were like, ’Wouldn’t it be so funny if Ron just went in?’”
“He went on down the stairs and he marched right in,” she added. “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 [Ferrell’s] walking around, looking really disoriented.”
Whereas the staggering variety of sexual assault claims towards Combs was years away from being dropped at mild, Gasteyer admitted Wednesday that the prank couldn’t have focused a extra “deserving” particular person — and teasingly added that Combs “really did not roll with it.”
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“It’s the greatest thing that’s ever happened,” she stated on the podcast.
“He was very uncomfortable, but it was also just like, the artifice of all that faux importance,” Gasteyer added. “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.’?”
Combs was arrested in September on federal intercourse trafficking and racketeering expenses, almost one 12 months after ex-girlfriend Casandra “Cassie” Ventura accused him of rape and abuse. Whereas she settled her swimsuit inside 24 hours, it prompted greater than 100 girls to return ahead.
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“I gotta find this tape,” Gasteyer stated on the podcast Wednesday, “’cause I have it.”
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