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Diondre Cole
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Jump to navigationJump to searchHost of the BET talk show What Up with That?, who likes singing his own theme song a little too much. Really a series of sketches on Saturday Night Live.
His backup singers are Pippa and Poppy, played variously by Jenny Slate and Nasim Pedrad, Pedrad and Vanessa Bayer, Bayer and Cecily Strong, Strong and Sasheer Zamata, Ego Nwodim and Melissa Villaseñor, and Villaseñor and Punkie Johnson.
Fred Armisen is Giuseppe, his Kenny G-like saxophone player.
Appearances
- October 17, 2009 Guest(s): James Franco
- November 21, 2009 Guest(s): Al Gore, Mindy Kaling
- December 19, 2009 Guest(s): Mike Tyson, Jack McBrayer
- March 6, 2010 Guest(s): Paul Rudd, Frank Rich
- October 2, 2010 Guest(s): Morgan Freeman, Ernest Borgnine
- December 4, 2010 Guest(s): Robin Williams
- May 14, 2011 Guest(s): Paul Simon, Chris Colfer, Lindsey Buckingham
- February 18, 2012 Guest(s): Bill O'Reilly, Kate Upton
- December 15, 2012 Guest(s): Samuel L. Jackson (himself), Carrie Brownstein (herself), Lindsey Buckingham (Bill Hader)
- February 15, 2015 clip used in a montage of musical sketches
- April 25, 2020 Guest(s): Charles Barkley, DJ Khaled
- October 23, 2021 Guest(s): Oscar Isaac, Emily Ratajkowski, Nicholas Braun
