Entartistes

The entartistes were a Canadian satirical political group, active in the late 1990s and early 2000s, whose members threw cream pies at political and cultural figures whom the group deemed to be in need of public embarrassment. A member of the group, who identified himself only as Pope-Tart, told The Gazette in 1999 that the group's core philosophy was "'You work for us. You can't be too big for your britches or you'll get a pie in the face."

History

The group was founded by several former members of the Rhinoceros Party of Canada, including François Gourd. They initially convened in 1995 to offer a $400 reward to anybody from across Canada who successfully pied Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, but after nobody accepted the offer at the time they began to plan their own pieings.

Other figures pied by the group included Jean Charest,Mario Dumont,Stéphane Dion,Allan Rock,Pierre Pettigrew,William Johnson,Pierre Bourque,Jean Doré,Jacques Parizeau,Bernard Landry and Jacques Duchesneau. Quebec politicians were the most common targets, although the group also pied Sylvester Stallone during a 1998 promotional tour.