Howard Stern revealed that friend and comedian Jerry Seinfeld called him and wanted to come on the air to personally apologize for insulting the longtime radio host’s comedy chops.

On the Fly on the Wall podcast hosted by ex-Saturday Night Live castmembers David Spade and Dana Carvey last week, Seinfeld claimed the podcast had “outflanked” Stern’s SiriusXM show and that his comedy skills may be lacking with comedians regularly hosting their own shows.

“Howard Stern invented this, right?” Seinfeld said. “But we’re better than him now. Howard is interesting. Howard is a great interviewer, but comedy chops, I mean, can we speak candidly?”

He then praised Spade and Carvey’s show as better than Stern’s radio show, which recently had on President Joe Biden for an hour-long interview.

In a statement, Seinfeld quickly apologized for his comments, explaining he felt “bad” and that it came off as more insulting to Stern than he had intended.

“I really feel bad for what I said about my friend Howard Stern in a conversation with David Spade and Dana Carvey, talking about the glut of comedy podcasts,” he said.

Stern responded on his radio show on Monday to Seinfeld by calling the comments “weird” and revealing Seinfeld had even wanted to come on the show to apologize personally.

“Jerry had said that basically I’m an interviewer and that I’m not a comedian, and that now comedians have podcasts and comedians are, you know, funnier or something than me. I read it, and I went, ‘Oh, that’s weird,’ because Jerry is a personal friend of ours,” Stern said.

The radio host said Seinfeld called him immediately to apologize and Stern completely forgave him, saying he did not take any of it personally.

“I said ‘Jerry, you don’t even have to — please. This is embarrassing. I’m the king of going on the air and having millions of regrets afterward.’ Apology accepted, I don’t care,” he said. “And you know what? If I’m not a comedian, I’m an interviewer. I don’t know what I am. I always considered myself a bit of a comedian, but whatever it is, don’t worry about it.”

Stern said he turned down Seinfeld coming on the show because it wasn’t necessary and it’d just be “awkward.”

“I said, ‘Not necessary, I don’t wanna get into it. It’s awkward, it’s fine.’ I said, ‘I’ve had to apologize to you for shit I’ve said,'” Stern explained. “I’ve had to call up people and apologize for shit I’ve done on the air when I’m a huge fan of these people.”

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