Noël Godin
Belgian actor, anarchist, critic, writer
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Noël Godin (born 13 September 1945) is a Belgian writer, critic, actor and notorious pie thrower or entarteur.[1] Godin gained global attention in 1998 when his group ambushed Microsoft CEO Bill Gates in Brussels, pelting the software magnate with pies.[2][3] After bombarding Gates, Godin allegedly said, "My work here is done."[4] He has been described as "the French-speaking world's best-known prankster."[1]
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Philosophy
Godin insists he is non-violent and is careful to use only soft pies made of cream and sponge cake that will not physically hurt his victims, which he purchases from local bakeries.[3][5][6] He says his humor can be traced back to Bugs Bunny, Wile E. Coyote, the Marx Brothers, Norman Wisdom, and the radical "yippies" of the Youth International Party.[1][3][6][7]
A supporter of anarchist causes,[3][4] Godin targets figures representing elites whom the public has turned against.[1] One of his favorite targets is the French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy, who has been pied by Godin or one of his accomplices on at least seven occasions.[5][8]
Pieing targets
Since 1969, Godin has thrown pies at more than 25 people in the fields of culture, politics, and beyond.[3][6] The list of public figures Godin and his accomplices have targeted with pies includes:
- Marguerite Duras (1969)[3][5]
- Maurice Béjart (1969)[1][5]
- Marco Ferreri (1976)[9]
- Jean-Luc Godard (1985)[1]
- Bernard-Henri Lévy (at least seven times, including 1985, 1994, 2015)[1][8]
- Alain Bévérini (1993)[1]
- Patrick Bruel (1993)[3][10]
- Jean-Pierre Elkabbach (1994)[1][11]
- Hélène (1995)[1]
- Philippe Douste-Blazy (1995)[3][6]
- Daniel Toscan du Plantier (1996)[1][3][9]
- Patrick Poivre d'Arvor (1996)[1][3][12]
- Priests at Nantes Cathedral (1996)[13]
- Nicolas Sarkozy (1997)[3]
- Bill Gates (1998)[2][7]
- Bernard Landry (2000)[14]
- Jean-Pierre Chevènement (2002)[15]
- Jean Charest (2003)[16]
- Doc Gynéco (2007)[17]
Books
- Anthologie de la subversion carabinée, L'âge d'homme, 1989, ISBN 2-8251-0715-8 (philosophical study of political freedom), réédition revue et augmentée, 2008
- Zig zig boum boum, Le Veilleur, Toulouse, 1994
- Crème et châtiment : mémoire d'un entarteur, Albin Michel, 1995
- Godin par Godin, Yellow Now, 2001, ISBN 2-87340-151-6
- Armons-nous les uns les autres! (novel), Flammarion, 2003, ISBN 978-2-08-068385-4
- Entartons, entartons les pompeux cornichons!, Flammarion, 2005, ISBN 2-08-068546-5 (The story of all his pieings).
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