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Friday, October 23, 2009
Gossip / TV RIP Soupy Sales
Posted by David Schmader on Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 12:54 PM
Soupy Sales, whose zany television routines turned the smashing of a pie to the face into a madcap art form, died Thursday night. He was 83.Some 20,000 pies were hurled at Soupy Sales or at visitors to his TV shows in the 1950s and ’60s, by his own count. The victims included Frank Sinatra, Tony Curtis and Jerry Lewis, all of whom turned up just for the honor of being creamed.
And here's a hilarious chunk from E!'s write-up:
[I]n 1965, a disgruntled Sales ended his New Year's Day broadcast of The Soupy Sales Show by instructing his young audience to creep into their parents' bedrooms, take their parents' "funny green pieces of paper with pictures of U.S. presidents," and mail the paper to him. When money started arriving at the studio, Sales explained he was only joking and either returned the dough or donated the unreturnables to charity.
RIP Soupy Sales. Please smash a pie into God's face for me.
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I used to watch Soupy as an adult. It was more than a TV show for children. There was a lot of 'hidden' adult humor. The characters of White Fang, Black Tooth and Pookie were great. He was way ahead of his time.
I watched him on television when I was a child, and once encountered him in person on the street in New York City. I was probably about five. I cannot believe he was so old. I would have figured he might be forty by now, not in his eighties.
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