Published by
Eric Ditzian on Friday, May 1, 2009 at
10:23 am.

Back
in 2001, when he played a death row inmate
in the Oscar-winning “Monster’s Ball,” it
came as a surprise to most of us that Sean
‘Diddy’ Combs could pull off such a
nuanced performance. But by the time he
appeared on Broadway in 2004 in the
gut-wrenching revival of “A Raisin in the
Sun,” it was no secret that the
rapper/producer/business exec could also
act.
At least in dramatic roles. Could
he also do comedy? Judd Apatow wasn’t sure
when he cast Diddy as a record label owner
in “Get Him to the Greek,” the spin-off of
last year’s Jason Segel comedy “Forgetting
Sarah Marshall.” Apatow, it turned out,
was not just surprised—he was jealous.