Steve Rannazzisi, from "The League", Lied About Being in 1 of the Twin Towers on 9/11

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Steve Rannazzisi, a comedian who stars in the FX fantasy football series The League, told an interviewer in 2009 that he was in the South WTC tower on 9/11, and made a narrow escape from his job at Merrill Lynch before the second plane hit, then repeating that story for years. This week, though, he was forced to admit that he fabricated the entire story, which is incidentally also the admission of being a piece of s***. The Times noted that his story was told in “elaborate detail” on WTF with Marc Maron, including the floor from which he supposedly escaped and how it felt to be inside the South tower when the North one was hit. However, when Rannazzisi was called out for inconsistencies in his story, he was forced to admit he was a liar http://ift.tt/1UUYysn

Statement from Rannazzisi's Twitter

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Stephen Rannazzisi ✔ @SteveRannazzisi As a young man, I made a mistake that I deeply regret and for which apologies may still not be enough 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 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. 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 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 when I hadn't come clean about this? 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. It was profoundly disrespectful to those who perished and those who lost loved ones. The stupidity and guilt I have felt for many years has not abated. It was an early taste of having a public persona, and I made a terrible mistake.

I mean Ive seen The League, it has it's moments, but Im not a fan really. I just have 2 things:
1) Why? What was the benefit of this? Was this a well known story? I never even heard of it until today. And to my knowledge his career isn't contingent on this story
2) What a d***