Ana Gasteyer figures she encountered solely 5 a-holes in her six years at Saturday Evening Reside, she stated this week on the Las Culturistas podcast. The best way she may inform? “They’d be like, ‘So-and-so is within the constructing, all people keep in your dressing rooms!’”
That’s precisely what went down the week Sean “Diddy” Combs confirmed up as a musical visitor in 1998. “He, in fact, shut down the entire constructing,” she stated. “Which is relevant if you happen to’re a presidential candidate. However aside from that, actually it’s my home. He demanded a very closed set.”
In 1998, SNL was additionally Will Ferrell’s home. Gasteyer remembers how Ferrell, as a goof, would stroll round as a personality named Ron. “They have been like, ‘Wouldn’t or not it’s so humorous if Ron simply went in?’” she stated — and that’s simply what Ferrell did. “He went on down the steps, and he marched proper in. And I’ve the video from the management room the place Sean Combs is rapping and behind him, Ron is simply strolling round trying actually disoriented.”
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Diddy took the interruption simply the best way one would anticipate. “He actually didn’t roll with it,” Gasteyer stated. “He was very uncomfortable.”
Ferrell himself reminisced about Ron’s go to to Diddy in a 2020 installment of SNL Tales from the Present. Ron, he stated, was “this character that I got here up with with a faux mustache and an ascot and this bizarre outfit that I discovered at a thrift retailer.”
Ron would stroll across the SNL set, Ferrell by no means breaking character. The oddly dressed man supposedly labored the second digicam unit for SNL director Jim Signorelli, whereas doubling as his nanny. You by no means knew the place Ron may flip up, however you might depend on the character to be “actually annoying.”
A number of SNL solid and crew members have been watching Diddy rehearse (Ferrell referred to as him Puff Daddy) when somebody instructed Ron ought to be a part of the musical visitor onstage. “And earlier than everybody turned to see, I had sprinted out the door,” Ferrell revealed. “It’s presupposed to be a closed set.”
“I didn’t actually know what to do as soon as I received up there,” Ferrell stated as he reviewed low-grade footage of the rehearsal. “Oh — then we shook fingers. That was good.”
However Ron wasn’t fairly carried out with Diddy but. “For those who return and have a look at the goodnights of that present, Ron is perhaps within the goodnights,” Ferrell stated with a smirk. “I simply have a sense.”
