The answer to the question posed in the headline is probably that you were too young to care, or not yet born, so you’re forgiven for not seeing the video that you’re about to watch.

Nicolas Cage is an odd character, with a long history of appearing in videos that he probably wishes weren’t forever archived on the internet.

He was caught on tape ruining Prince’s ‘Purple Rain’ during karaoke after his four-day marriage to makeup artist Erika Koike.

Not his best work (both the marriage and the song). The marriage was also captured on tape, FYI, and it isn’t pretty.

But we digress – you came here to see his entrance on a show called Wogan. 

The late Terry Wogan, the host of the show, was an Irish radio and television broadcaster who worked for the BBC in the UK for most of his career.

Cage was supposed to come out in a civilised manner, give the audience a polite ‘hello’ and sit down.

Instead, he did this:

Honestly, we’re not surprised.

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