Baz Kershaw

And the thing with fools is that they are very close to authority figures such as the king or queen.

And I read quite an interesting interview where the professor of performance at Warwick University, a man called Baz Kershaw, said that people who throw pies are like fools in medieval courts who have license to insult the king or queen, and the protest is made even stronger because you get that much closer to the victim.

It's not like throwing an egg where you might be a kind of member of the public on the side behind a, behind a kind of railing.

You're right there with the person in charge and you're f- and you're puncturing their authority very effectively.