Soupy Sales, the boundary-breaking comedian who good-naturedly endured, by his count, more than 20,000 pies to the face, has died. He was 83.
The comic's anything-for-a-laugh pie-throwing shtick became his trademark, and stars including Frank Sinatra, Tony Curtis and Shirley MacLaine took one in the face on the comedian's television show in the early 1960s.
His nerdy cool paved the way for such later comedians as Pee Wee Herman ...read more
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Length: 23:00
Posted: 5/17/2008
Once upon a time there was a place where nobody laughed it certainly wasn t Norm Crosby s Comedy Shop the night Soupy Sales, Mike Preminger, Bobby Ramsen, Johnny Yune, Sonny Bono and Shamus M'Cool were here. watch
I won;t lie, I;m completely unfamiliar with The Soupy Sales Show (cue two commenters pretending to be appalled that anyone wouldn;t know one thing from ever), but the following clip (via Dlisted) should suffice as the requisite online tribute on the day of his passing at 83.In this vid, Soupy discovers a singing, piano-playing spider and introduces him to a heroin-thin Alice Cooper (why wouldn;t you?). So this is what Adult Swim was like in the 70s... watch
