Jonah Hill apology on the tonight show earned him praises from the Daily News, saying that he “just raised the bar on celebrity apologies.”

The “22 Jump Street” star has already appeared on the Howard Stern’s show prior to

Prior to his “Tonight Show” apology, the “22 Jump Street” star appeared on Howard Stern’s show to issue a public apology where he claimed that no one was more disappointed that Jonah Hill than him, following his anti gay slur which, was caught on video telling a photographer, “Suck my d…, you fa…”

But, what earned Jonah Hill more praises and respect from the public is his apology with the “Tonight Show,” where his sincere apology was compared to a number of celebrities and even politicians who had their share of anti-gay slurs.

Here is the transcript and video of his interview with Jimmy Fallon:

I said the most hurtful word I could think of at that moment. I didn’t mean this in the sense of the word. I didn’t mean it in a homophobic way. I think that....that doesn’t matter, you know? How you mean things doesn’t matter. Words have weight in meaning. The word I chose was grotesque. No one deserves to say or hear words like that. I’ve been supportive to the LGBTQ community my entire life and I completely let the members of that community and everybody else down when I used a word like that this weekend. My heart’s broken. I’m genuinely deeply sorry to anyone who has ever been affected by that term in their life. I’m sorry and I don’t deserve or expect your forgiveness.

But what I ask if that you’re at home—if you’re watching this and you’re a young person especially—if someone says something that hurts you or angers you, use me an example of what not to do. And don’t respond with hatred or anger, because you’re just adding more ugliness to the world. Again. I’m so sorry.

Jonah Hill’s sincere remorse topped celebrity apologies, “It was a model apology,” Daniel Post Senning of the Emily Post Institute says. “I was impressed with his sincerity. It was moving.”

Hill’s decision to face the public instead of hiding behind the computer screen unlike what Justin Bieber did when he issued an apology online via Twitter, was the first thing he did right according to the “Daily News.”

“For sensitive or emotional content, getting away from the written word is a powerful choice to make,” says Senning. “Doing it in person on TV, where people can see him and relate to him, indicates how serious he was about giving this apology.”

What also made Jonah Hill’s apology sincere was his effort to get down to business where he came dressed in a suit. “He came dressed in a serious way, and he said to the audience that I’m going to be serious,” says psychotherapist and “How to Be a Grown Up” author Stacy Kaiser. “He is the king of the joke ... and he went out of his way to show that what he did was not funny.”

Most of all the “22 Jump Street” star’s apology came off natural and sincere and was not over polished unlike studied apologies issued by Bill Clinton on his Monicagate confession, or Lance Armstrong and his crocodile tears on his confession to Oprah for his doping scandal.

“What you see a lot in the media are people who give a rehearsed ‘my-PR-team-coached-me’ apology,” says Kaiser. “The public wants to see an apology that seems natural and sincere.”

“It was really brave to speak out and say, ‘If you’re a young kid, use me as an example of what not to do,’” says celebrity image consultant Amanda Sanders. “Now he’s not obligated to do endless public service announcements. He nailed it.”

However, the “Daily News” reported that what should really be important is if Jonah Hill could actually live up to his apology.

“The test here will be, does he follow through?” says Senning. “Does he still mean this apology a month or two years or four years from now, when the eye of the media isn’t as focused on him?”

And warns that if he loses his cool again, he could risk becoming one of the celebrity recidivist

“Everyone is allowed to screw up sometimes,” says Sanders, “but at this point when Alec Baldwin apologizes, it’s like, ‘Really?’”