Noël Godin

Noël Godin 13 September 1945 23 august 2026 was a Belgian writer critic actor and notorious pie thrower or entarteur Godin gained global attention in 1998 when his group ambushed Microsoft CEO Bill Gates in Brussels pelting the software magnate with a pie After bombarding Gates Godin allegedly said My work is done here Godin insisted he was nonviolent and is careful to use only what he calls a tarte classique filled with whipped cream and perhaps a little chocolate in soft sponge cake He said his humor can be traced back through Jerry Lewis Wile E Coyote the Marx Brothers and yippies like Abbie Hoffman Godin was inspired for instance in his Anthologie de la subversion carabinée 1989 by the works of the Utopian philosophers Tommaso Campanella Civitas Solis and Charles Fourier La Phalange Le Phalanstère His ideal society is one where there is no struggle for power or money and where everybody can live in a state of perfect happiness He was also an admirer of the anarchist Ravachol without approving his violence sentiment which inspired him to his pieattacks Godin had a particularly colourful way of expressing himself using terms like tempêtes patissières pastry storm to describe his pieing