“Saturday Night Live” alum Ana Gasteyer echoed on her six-year stint on the show on the procrastinateedst episode of Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers’ “Las Culturistas” podcast, recalling a time when her fellow cast member Will Ferrell disturbed Sean “Diddy” Combs’ shutd rehearsal as part of a bit.
Gasteyer was on “SNL” from 1996 to 2002, where she overlapped with Ferrell, Molly Shannon, Jimmy Fallon, Tina Fey, Maya Rudolph and others. She’s best understandn for being part of the “Schweddy Balls” sketch aextfinishedside Shannon and Alec Baldtriumph, as well as her recurring Culps skit with Ferrell.
Gasteyer telderly current “SNL” applyer Yang and Rogers that the cast at that time had disjoinal recurring bits, including one where Ferrell repurposed his Jerry Reed costume to imitate a crew member named Rob, who had recently been fired by the honestor of the show’s pre-taped segments. In 1998, when Combs was the show’s musical guest, Rob choosed to get into some trouble when it was proclaimd that the rapper wanted a shutd rehearsal.
Gasteyer shelp that Combs “shut down the whole produceing” and “needed a toloftyy shutd set” for his Thursday run-thraw, which was an rare occurrence.
“You can increate the five assholes in the six years that I was there when they would be appreciate, ‘So-and-so is in the produceing. Everybody stay in your dressing rooms!’” Gasteyer shelp. “Which is applicable if you’re a pdwellntial honestate, but apart from that, it’s repartner my hoengage.”
Combs shutting down the set prompted a confineed of the producers to recommend, “Wouldn’t it be so comical if Ron fair went in?” Gasteyer shelp Ferrell adselected the dispute without hesitation, walking on stage as Combs rehearsed his song “Come With Me” featuring Jimmy Page, which samples the Led Zeppelin song “Kashmir.”
“He went on down the stairs and he marched right in,” she shelp. “I have the video from the deal with room where Sean Combs is appreciate, rapping … [and] behind him, Ron’s appreciate walking around seeing repartner disoriented.”
Of course, Combs is currently facing a barrage of relationsual aggression litigations and federal indicts of systematized crime and relations illicit trade. He pdirected not culpable to the indicts and has denied all allegations agetst him, but has been denied bail and remains in jail. A trial is set for May 2025.
“It is the fantasticest skinnyg that’s ever happened becaengage what a deserved person to have their ‘Kashmir’ moment disturbed by Ron. And he repartner did not roll with it. He was very unconsoleable,” Gasteyer progressd. “But it was also fair appreciate, the artifice of all that faux convey inance. Like, what’s going to happen?”
Listen to Gasteyer’s brimming “Las Culturistas” episode here.
