Comedy Central Won’t Cancel Steve Rannazzisi’s “Breaking Dad” Tonight
Rannazzisi, who stars in the FX comedy The League, had for years told interviewers that he’d been working at Merrill Lynch in the World Trade Center on 9/11 and had narrowly escaped. Buffalo Wild Wings’ moral reputation remains unimpeachable, particularly when it comes to claiming one was several miles closer to danger during a nationally traumatic event than is strictly true.
“Breaking Dad”, is set to air at 11 p.m.
“We just learned about his last night”, said Comedy Central spokesman Steve Albani.
Rannazzisi, pictured, lost a high- profile endorsement deal with Buffalo Wild Wings, which pulled its commercials featuring Rannazzisi after the admission.
In detail, the 37-year-old amusing man recalled “working at Merrill Lynch’s offices on the 54th floor of the south tower when the first plane struck the north tower”. The comedian also talked about what happened to him that day on a radio interview with Julia Cunningham from EW Radio on Sirius XM in December 2013.
Following the comedian’s apology, the network said on Wednesday, “We are very disappointed to hear about Steve’s misrepresentations and are now determining how we will move forward”.
“I don’t know why I said this”, he said. “This was inexcusable. I am truly, truly sorry”, the comedian said in a statement.
“I was not at the Trade Center on that day”, Rannazzisi explained in a statement provided by his publicist, Matthew Labov.
He said he wished that subsequent silence could erase a story told out of immaturity.
‘One had a tale about a grown child recovering in a burn unit, but the hospital he was at kept changing each time she told it, ‘ she said. I don’t know why I said this. “If people come on here and make stuff up, that’s on them”. It is upsetting that he would fabricate a story about having survived that frightful tragedy.