Soupy Sales dies at 83

[spanone]

Soupy Sales, a comic with a gift for slapstick who attained cult-like popularity in the 1960s with a pie-throwing routine that became his signature, has died. He was 83.

Sales had numerous ailments and died Thursday at Calvary Hospital in the Bronx, said Kathy O'Connell, a longtime friend.

As the star of "The Soupy Sales Show," he performed live on television for 13 years in Detroit, Los Angeles and New York before the program went into syndication in the United States and abroad.

Ostensibly for children, the show had broad appeal among adults who found Sales' puns, gags and pratfalls deliciously corny and camp. His cast consisted of goofy puppets with names like White Fang, Black Tooth and Pookie, and a host of off-camera characters, including the infamous naked girl.

http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-soupy-sales23-2009oct23,0,699167.story

[Captain Hilts]

1. I LOVED eating lunch with Soupy Sales! nt

[spanone]

2. yep, he was a part of my childhood

[rucky]

3. I could've sworn he already did this.

[spanone]

5. encore?

[trotsky]

4. Only 83?

Thought he would have been much older. Talented, talented guy who will be missed.

[hlthe2b]

6. I hadn't heard anything of him in years... so yes...

I had the impression he would have been older. RIP,funny man.

[spanone]

7. youtube of soupy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNv3rVV1mfs

[Ganja Ninja]

13. How cool is that music?

:thumbsup:

[tilsammans]

8. RIP, Soupy

I knew he'd been ill for some time.

What a goofy guy he was! Another part of my childhood is gone. :cry:

[sinkingfeeling]

9. Loved Soupy as a kid. RIP.

[Berry Cool]

10. He worked on TV in Cleveland, too. And radio.

Why did the LA Times omit that? That's when he first started his pie-to-the-face stuff.

[Walk away]

11. I may have to make a banana cream pie in his honor tonight....

and invite a few friends to toss a bit at each other.

[givemebackmycountry]

12. I'll never forget the show on New Years Day that got him suspended...

He told all the little kiddies that "Mom and Dad are still sleeping because they were out late last night" and then he urged the kids to go into Daddy's wallet and put all the "green paper" in a envelope and send it to Soupy Sales, and then he gave the studios address.

Couple of days later, the cash started to roll in and that's when he got suspended.

It still was one of the funniest stunts ever and I remember watching it.

[RagAss]

17. It was a classic...remember it like yesterday...I was only 6 but even I knew it was a gag.

[spanone]

14. more soupy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8VtY_li3Sc

[pipi_k]

15. Used to watch him all the time as a kid

White Fang and Black Tooth were my favorite puppets (besides Shari Lewis's Lamb Chops).

RIP Soupy

:(

[spanone]

16. soupy with the naked girl

http://www.detroitkidshow.com/NakedSoupClipp.wmv

[FourScore]

18. Farewell Soupy! May heaven be paved in pies.

Thank you for the wonderful laughs.

[Turbineguy]

19. OK, Boo boo.