Steve Rannazzisi from 'The League' Says He Lied About Being in the Twin Towers on 9/11

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Comedian Steve Rannazzisi is mostly known as Taco's less funny brother onThe League, a very popular TV show about man-children in a fantasy football league. When asked about his success, Rannazzisi has credited it with a life-altering wake up call he received after escaping from the south tower on September 11. On Tuesday, Rannazzisi came forward to admit that the whole 9/11 story was made up.

"I was there and then the first tower got hit and we were like jostled all over the place," he told Marc Maron in 2009. Rannazzisi claimed he was an account manager at Merrill Lynch back then—a lie—and said he'd fled the building slightly before the second plane hit—another lie.

It's not yet clear who first poked holes in Rannazzisi's story, but the Times reports that the comedian decided to come clean after "confronted with evidence that undermined his account."

Rannazzisi released a statement on Tuesday admitting that the 9/11 story was fabricated. "I don't know why I said this," his statement read. "I am truly, truly sorry." He continued his apologies and explanations on Twitter on Wednesday.

As a young man, I made a mistake that I deeply regret and for which apologies may still not be enough.

— Stephen Rannazzisi (@SteveRannazzisi)September 16, 2015

After I moved with my wife to Los Angeles from New York City in 2001 shortly after 9/11, I told people that I was in one of the World Trade

— Stephen Rannazzisi (@SteveRannazzisi)September 16, 2015

Center towers on 9/11. It wasn't true. I was in Manhattan but working in a building in midtown and I was not at the Trade Center on that day

— Stephen Rannazzisi (@SteveRannazzisi)September 16, 2015

I don't know why I said this. This was inexcusable. I am truly, truly sorry. For many years, more than anything, I have wished that, with

— Stephen Rannazzisi (@SteveRannazzisi)September 16, 2015

silence, I could somehow erase a story told by an immature young man.It only made me more ashamed. How could I tell my children to be honest

— Stephen Rannazzisi (@SteveRannazzisi)September 16, 2015

when I hadn't come clean about this?

— Stephen Rannazzisi (@SteveRannazzisi)September 16, 2015

it is to the victims of 9/11 and to the people that love them--and the people that love me--that I ask for forgiveness.

— Stephen Rannazzisi (@SteveRannazzisi)September 16, 2015

Buffalo Wild Wings, who had hired Rannazzisi as the face of a new ad campaign, is currently "re-evaluating [their] relationship with Steve," and Deadline reports that Comedy Central may cancel Rannazzisi's special, Breaking Dad, which was scheduled to air on Saturday.

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