‘A–hole’ Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs ‘demanded’ a closed set on ‘SNL,’ alum says — so Will Ferrell crashed it

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“Las Culturistas” podcast, hosted by Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers, and claimed that the disgraced rapper, 55, “shut down the whole building” when he was the musical guest on “SNL” in May 1998.“You can tell like the five a–holes 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.’ Which is applicable if you’re a presidential candidate,” Gasteyer said. “But apart from that, really, it’s my house.”“For P.

Diddy, he demanded a totally closed set,” she added.Gasteyer, who was a cast member on the sketch comedy series from 1996 to 2002, recalled how Combs sang “Come With Me” with Zepplin guitarist Jimmy Page on the show.

She said that the Thursday before the show, fellow cast member Will Ferrell decided to dress as a character named Ron and crash Combs’ rehearsal.“He went on down the stairs, and he marched right in,” the “Mean Girls” star shared. “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 Ron’s walking around, looking really disoriented.”Gasteyer called Ferrell, 57, interrupting Combs’ rehearsal “the greatest thing that’s ever happened” and said the music executive “deserved” it.“He did not roll with it,” Gasteyer recalled about Combs.