Noël Godin, Prankster Who Threw Pies at the Powerful, Dies at 80

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/07/world/europe/noel-godin-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1._lA.aZS9.vGwt55P5cpmo

Splattering figures like Bill Gates, Jean-Luc Godard and Bernard-Henri Lévy, he perfected the art of using whipped cream as a form of protest.

Archived copy of the article — does not include pie video

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Slartifartblast@piefed.social · 6 pts · 2d (1 reply)

I wonder what Jean-Luc Godard did to get a cream pie (!) lobbed at him?

silence7@slrpnk.net · 4 pts · 2d

Apparently he made a religious film

Toasticus@piefed.social · 2 pts · 1d

I remember the Bill Gates video, that was infamous for a good long while.

You know, it's people like Mr.Godin, that really makes me sad inside. We lose big names every year, any year. But the people who were the little crevices of society we lose, just makes the world much more greyer.