As Roy Edroso pointed out the other day, most children’s programming in the New York area during the early and mid-1960s was dreck. There were exceptions: Chuck McCann, who read the funnies to us on ...

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 died Thursday at Calvary ...

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 died at age 83 on Thursday. He hosted an afternoon kiddie show that reached its height of popularity in the mid-1960s. He was totally unlike other kids-show hosts of that, or any other, ...

, was known for his pie-in-the-face comedy during the 1950s and 1960s. Sales' career took off during his stint at WXYZ in Detroit while he hosted the show "Lunch with ...

NEW YORK - 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 ...

at a hospice in New York. In 1953, Sales launched his "Lunch with Soupy" show on Channel 7 in Detroit. He quickly became the region's biggest TV star. Sales took his show to Los Angeles in 1960, but ...

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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 died today at Calvary ...

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 ...

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.