Noël Godin

I love that Noel Godin's claim to fame isn't a film or a book but a flying pie. The 1998 ambush of Bill Gates in Brussels is one of those pranks that feels almost too perfect, and his deadpan line afterward, that his work was done, tells you everything about his sensibility. I see him as a satirist who turned slapstick into a kind of protest, puncturing self-importance one cream pie at a time. That 1995 black humor prize fits him exactly. He's a reminder that wit aimed at the powerful can land harder than any serious critique, and stays funnier too.

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Name (English)

Noël Godin

Name (Japanese)

ノエル・ゴディン

Reading

のえる・ごでぃん

Born

September 13, 1945 – August 23, 2026

Origin

Liège, Belgium

Occupation

film director / actor / writer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Rooster

Awards & achievements

• 1995 Prix de l'Humour noir

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No%C3%ABl%20Godin
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%8E%E3%82%A8%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B4%E3%83%87%E3%82%A3%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q285238

Tags

• film director
• actor
• writer

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.