Pie-splattered Comedian Soupy Sales Dies at 83

Soupy Sales, the rubber-faced comedian whose career was built on 20,000 pies to the face and 5,000 live TV appearances died in New York Thursday. (Oct. 22)

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[JayPhilosopher]

Soupy Sales was one of the greatest comedians of 60's television. His show on WNEW, Channel 5 in New York was more madcap than anything on television today. He would do about six skits, 25 gags and tell about 50 jokes in a half hour show, five days a week, usually without any guess stars at all. I think every kid between 10-15 in the New York area watched his show around 1965. So there are about 3,000,000 extremely sad 50 somethings today.

Mucho love, Soupy, thanks for a lot of joy.

[Hildy2E]

We "Baby Boomers" were fortunate to have the likes of Soupy to give us laughs a plenty. God rest your soul. Hope there's a lot of pies in heaven!!!

[BarkObamaa]

Rest in Peace Uncle Soupy. You will be forever in my memories with laughs and cherish my childhood.

[FOSEEBOY]

SOUPY SALES WAS THE MID 60's!!!! ( And his ''KIDDIE'' show was really for ADULTS)

[chalomirof63]

@boaterbil Hey Bill: I know you meant Sonny Fox - LOL! We were probably watching Sandy, Soupy and Co. at the same time!!! And remember Uncle Fred Scott!!! Great times indeed. :)

[boaterbil]

@chalomirof63 Wow Sandy Fox...Wonderama. Sandy Becker, Soupy what great times they were

[peretz48]

The Soupy Sales show was ostensibly for kids, but hip grown-ups wanted in on the action. You just never knew what he would come up with. He was a funny man from a great era in TV. 

[jukeboxjonnyv]

@tucsonia I thumbed up your response. Sorry about your Dad. The entertainment business is ugly when it comes to business. I just told you how it works. My suggestion was only to cut the artist some slack because someone is always trying to exploit them. We don't know for sure who is responsible so my opinion is to not propagate something we can't verify. The sad part is that your Dad got stiffed which happens so frequently in your Dad's business. If it happened to me, I wouldn't work for him too

[tucsonia]

@jukeboxjonnyv It's been decades and my father and others in the know on the matter have passed on so I can't re-verify for your sake. However since THEY were there and you weren't I'll trust that they had a much better idea of who was culpable. If you don't find it believable then that's too damn bad.

[lissiwill]

@G0LDG0LD I was born in '62 and I remember at three sitting to watch Soupy but I couldn't stay seated =D He was so much fun ..I would get up and react to him..but my face wouldn't leave the screen for a second.lol ,,forget all worries and enjoy Soupy at an alloted time everyweek and you'll have my "3" yr. old memory!!Good idea..I'll save some time just for this now that I see on YouTube..(=

[jukeboxjonnyv]

@tucsonia Shows are run by promoters. Promoters hire the talent, including the musicians. The artist or headliners have agents. The agents deal with the promoters. The agents don't get paid unless the promoter pays them, usually in advance. The artist gets his money from his agent. Don't blame Soupy. You need a lesson in respect as well as the entertainment business. Have your musician 3rd parties find the promoter and disrespect him.

[chalomirof63]

@hemming57 "Lunch with Soupy Sales" right? And with Clyde Adler!! I remember it very fondly too.