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Key PointsNicolas Cage is expressing regret over the time he crashed Chris Rock's 2002 Howard Stern Show interview. The actor said that he apologized to Rock for interrupting their conversation. "I just crashed the show, and I felt terrible," he said. Nicolas Cage's interview-crashing days are behind him. During his "Spotlight" conversation at New York Comic Con on Saturday, the 62-year-old Con Air actor was asked if there were any panels that he'd like to crash at the event this weekend. "I don't interrupt people anymore. I've had a problem with that in the past, and I feel very bad about it, and I've actually apologized," Cage replied. "Chris Rock was on The Howard Stern Show, and I just crashed the show, and I felt terrible. "Nicolas Cage attends 'Spotlight on Nicolas Cage' during New York Comic Con 2026 on Oct. 10, in New York City. Credit: Craig Barritt/GettyThe National Treasure star clarified that he "didn't know it was Chris" who was on the radio program when he stopped by for an extended period of time in 2002. "I just showed up because I didn't want to give Howard time to think about questions to ask," he said.

10.14.2026Neil Howard, once a fixture at MKTG, is joining Bespoke Sports & Entertainment as VP/experiential. Courtesty Neil Howard Bespoke Sports & Entertainment is augmenting its senior staff with the hiring of Neil Howard as VP/experiential. Howard, who was at MKTG from 2006 to 2025 and rose to SVP working on Toyota and other accounts, will be based in Charlotte, become part of Bespoke’s senior leadership team and report to Bespoke President Greg Busch. “At the end the day, it all comes down to how you get in front of the consumer,” said Howard, whose first day was Monday. “Experiential has been growing, even in an age of digital because it’s effective, and so more clients are comfortable investing more there.”As for Bespoke, owned by Publicis since mid-2025? “My impressions was it has the entrepreneurial spirit and ability to be nimble, like a smaller agency with the resources of a larger company to use whenever necessary,” Howard said.

Jimmy Kimmel offered Fox News a backhanded congratulations on its 30th anniversary on Wednesday. “What do you get for the network that ruined everything?” he snarked, calling it a “BET for angry white grandpas.” The late-night host then provided a damning summary of the network’s birth and history. “Three decades ago, a visionary named Rupert Murdoch asked a simple question. He asked, ‘What if the news was whatever I want it to be?’” Kimmel said. “And with nothing more than millions of dollars and a complete disregard for the America in which he wasn’t born, he turned that idea into what has become the number one reason you can’t talk to your dad anymore.” He also blasted Fox News for “making sure our old people get mad and stay mad,” then showed a series of clips featuring some of the right-wing network’s lowlights. Check it out below: