Entartistes

The entartistes are a Canadian satirical political group whose members throw cream pies at political and cultural figures whom the group deems to be in need of public embarrassment.

Started on a radio show by Benoit Foisy (Tartagnan) and his friend multi-talented artist Patrick Robert (Pop-Tarte), and then joined by François Gourd, a co-founder of Canada's now-defunct Rhinoceros Party, the group was inspired by a similar movement, the "entarteurs", in Belgium. The group's English slogan is "The pie's the limit!"

The group usually targets Canadian politicians, and has pied former Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, provincial premiers such as Jean Charest and Ralph Klein, and cabinet ministers such as Stéphane Dion, Allan Rock and Pierre Pettigrew, among other political figures. Quebec politicians are the most common targets, although other Canadian politicians have been pied as well. In addition, the group pied Sylvester Stallone during a 1998 promotional tour.

In May 1999, Dion was the target of the pie-in-the-face gag orchestrated by the Montreal group. Dion was not amused and pressed charges, resulting in convictions of assault against two members of the pie-throwing group. [ [http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2000/05/17/pie_000517.html CBC; Pie throwers tossed suspended sentences; November 10, 2000] ]

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External links

* [http://www.entartistes.ca/ Les Entartistes]