Colin Quinn issued a very public apology to Tina Fey after she revealed he called her by an obscene name when the two were "Saturday Night Live" colleagues.

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The "30 Rock" and "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt" creator, frequent Golden Globes host, "Bossypants" author  (and past writer on "The Colin Quinn Show") revealed the epithet during an interview with Howard Stern You can listen to it here.

"I think his anxiety about the writing of the show spilled over. It was very random. I was like, 'What?!' He left me a message and he said that."

Here's Colin's apology:

And here's some of the Twitter commentary it inspired:

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