Stephen Colbert is apologizing after being a bit too keen to say good day to Mindy Kaling.

Mindy visited The Late Present on Wednesday, July 14 to promote the second season of Netflix’s By no means Have I Ever. Towards the top of their dialog, Stephen abruptly modified the subject to deal with a second from earlier within the day that he wished he may take again. 

“Now I might additionally like to apologize for earlier,” he considerably mysteriously informed his visitor. This led the 42-year-old alum of The Mindy Mission to reply, “OK, I did not know if you happen to have been going to carry it up, and I felt dangerous bringing this up.”

She went on to clarify to the confused viewers, “I used to be backstage getting modified, and I used to be simply in a pair of pants and my bra.” Stephen then continued with, “And I do not normally do that—I normally wait until the visitors are within the wings—however I believed I might simply go, ‘Hey, have an awesome present!’ So I popped the door open. I knocked, however I did that knock-and-pop.”