P.Diddy is always on the verge of balling: he's got the yacht(s), he runs marathons, wears Tom Wolfe suits, etc, yet he's always a little bit on the wrong side of laughable. I don't think he ever gotten over his role as pathetic sidekick to Biggie Smalls (e.g. his lines in Hypnotize). Here is an example of an almost successful attempt at balling: the ad verges on aesthetic coherence and a nice post-9/11 soft-porno feel, yet by the time he's pulling off her underwear and staring into the camera while biting her stomach we can't help but laugh.
It's all the more embarassing when someone as ostensibly non-baller as David Lynch can pull it off with such aristocratic ease:
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