France Culture remembers Noël Godin, the Belgian who turned pie-throwing into a literary gesture
A new episode of the podcast "Une histoire truculente" revisits the life of the writer and provocateur, who died in 2026, and his decades-long campaign of "entartage."
France Culture has devoted an episode of its podcast "Une histoire truculente," broadcast on September 6, to Noël Godin, the Belgian writer and provocateur who died in 2026 at the age of 80 or 81, having been born in 1945, according to the program's own description.
Godin was best known under his self-given persona "Georges Le Gloupier," the figure behind decades of what he called entartage — throwing cream pies at the powerful and the famous. According to France Culture, he presented the practice not as mere buffoonery but as a form of critical gesture, aimed squarely at the arrogance of politicians, executives and celebrities.
The episode's title plays on that mix of registers, framing Godin's career as both "crème," the substance of his signature act, and "châtiment," the punishment he claimed to be delivering. France Culture describes the program's content as a blend of slapstick humor, subversion and mockery, situating Godin within a tradition of joyful anarchism and protest through laughter.
No further biographical or bibliographical detail is given in the program description made available to Tomeling.
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