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I was lucky enough to have worked with and for Soupy. Please read my story and see a great later interview with Soupy.I was lucky enough to have worked with and for Soupy. Please read my story and see a... more
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Legendary comedian Soupy Sales died on Thursday at the age of 83. Sales is best known for his slapstick children's show Lunch with Soupy Sales and subsequent related shows, which ran from 1953 to 1979. Sales was infamously hit with more than 20,000 pies during his career.Legendary comedian Soupy Sales died on Thursday at the age of 83. Sales is best known... more
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Soupy Sales, whose wacky television routines turned the smashing of pies in people's faces into a zany art form, died Thursday night at the age of 83. A forerunner to Pee Wee Herman as a children’s television show host with wide adult appeal, Soupy bombarded television screens throughout most of his life. Soupy Sales became both a television favorite of youngsters and an anarchic comedy hero for teenagers and college students.
He reached his slapstick comedy highpoint in the mid-1960s on “The Soupy Sales Show,” a widely syndicated television program based in New York City. Soupy Sales became the Godfather of pie-throwing, and by his own count some 20,000 pies were hurled at Soupy or at visitors to his television shows in the 1950s and ’60s. His celebrity pie-victims included Frank Sinatra, Tony Curtis and Jerry Lewis, all of whom turned up just for the honor of being creamed.
By 1966, his wild stunts heightened Mr. Sales’s appeal to young people as a comedian who loved to tease authority, and when he headlined a rock ’n’ roll show at New York’s Paramount Theater on Easter of that year, as many as 3,000 teenagers were lined up throughout Times Square hoping to get seats for his morning performance. Mr. Sales was later a longtime panelist on television’s “What’s My Line?” and a host for a variety talk show on WNBC Radio in the 1980s.
This piece includes a number of vintage b&w photographs and a 1959 video from “The Soupy Sales Show: Lunch with Soupy Sales.” In this very funny, somewhat bawdy video, the television crew from “The Soupy Sales Show” sneaked an exotic dancer onto the set as a special surprise for Soupy’s birthday!Soupy Sales, whose wacky television routines turned the smashing of pies in... more
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Soupy Sales, the rubber-faced comedian whose anything-for-a-chuckle career was built on 20,000 pies to the face and 5,000 live TV appearances across a half-century of laughs, has died. He was 83.Soupy Sales, the rubber-faced comedian whose anything-for-a-chuckle career was built... more
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The comedian acquired a cult-like following among adults with a show ostensibly meant for children. His signature routine, which he elevated to an art form, was pie-throwing.The comedian acquired a cult-like following among adults with a show ostensibly meant... more
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