If you never thought a pie in the face was funny, you just didn't get Soupy Sales. If you didn't want to splat him with a fluffy cream pie, or - even better - if you never yearned to be on the ...

“12 O’Clock Comics” eventually became “Lunch with Soupy” and then “The Soupy Sales show.” Over a seven-year run in Detroit, ...

Entertainer Soupy Sales died this week at age 83. He became a star of early children's television, when the goal was to entertain, not teach anything — unless it was how to throw a pie in your face.

Comedian Soupy Sales died Thursday in Bronx, N.Y., at age 83. Sales is best known as the host of the 1960s' kids' TV program, The Soupy Sales Show. The comedian married slapstick and double-entendre, ...

DETROIT (AP) - October 23, 2009 Sales died Thursday night at Calvary Hospice in the Bronx, New York, said his former manager and longtime friend, Dave Usher. Sales had many health problems and entered ...

Soupy Sales, the rubber-faced, pie-in the-puss comic beloved by the Baby Boomer generation, died Thursday night. He was 83. The funnyman’s longtime friend Dave Usher said Sales succumbed to cancer at ...

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Long before “Saturday Night Live,” “The Daily Show” and David Letter man, there was Soupy Sales — the hippest show on television. For those of the Baby Boomer generation, and especially New Yorkers, ...

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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.

DETROIT (AP) — 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.