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Thirteen months ago, I put a video on YouTube, completely on a whim. It was Christmas Eve, I was shirtless in a bed at my parents’ house, and in it I was sending a message to entertainment impresario Sean “Diddy” Combs.

I told him about how I wanted to believe that the world was a cool enough place that a guy like him and a guy like me could hang out. I asked him if he would be a guest on my talk show at the UCB Theater in New York. I asked my Twitter followers to help me convince him to do the show by putting up tweets [...]

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I'm still on this twitter campaign!! Everybody tweet @nbcsnl + @lornemichaels that you wanna see ME+Deniro perform a skit on SNL Dec4th! GO!less than a minute ago via ÜberTwitteriamdiddyiamdiddy

Diddy, who is performing with Dirty Money on SNL on December 4th, would like to do a sketch with De Niro during the episode. Fair enough! But he seems to be [...]

Yep, these all look good. But wait a minute! Where the hell is Diddy?! Didn't they hear that he wants to be involved with Bobby somehow? You guys, Diddy is totally gonna start a Twitter campaign over this if he doesn't get his way. A Twitter campaign! Do what he says for chrissakes!

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ATTN @NBCSNL! NO DENIRO SKIT YET? WELL ITS LIVE TV SO IM TELLING U IM DOING A SKIT W ROBERT DENIRO. BETTER HAVE A SCRIPT READY FOR ME. LOLless than a minute ago via webiamdiddyiamdiddy

DIDDY WILL NOT BE DENIED.

You know what would really be great? Jay Pharoah doing a sketch with De Niro as Diddy. Or just having Diddy stick to doing music. [...]