The pie in the face as a comedy punch line was invented ages ago, probably about 10 minutes after the first pie. But whenever Soupy Sales was on the receiving end of a custard cannon–which was ...

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DETROIT - 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 ...

From the cluttered studio of Detroit’s station WXYZ came rumblings that a fresh new talent had successfully invaded the troubled precincts of TV comedy: a youthful ...

DETROIT -- 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 ...

WASHINGTON, Oct 23 (Reuters) - Soupy Sales, a pioneer of slapstick television comedy who once estimated he had taken 20,000 pies in the face, died on Thursday night in a New York hospice, the Detroit ...

Soupy Sales, whose career was basically built on giving, or taking, pies to the face, has died in New York at 83. He had many health problems and entered a hospice last week, said his long-time ...

Shor, he says, “does a terrific job of chronicling Soupy’s early days in television, especially those important Detroit years…where he created some of his most memorable characters. Shor makes a ...

Shor, he says, “does a terrific job of chronicling Soupy’s early days in television, especially those important Detroit years…where he created some of his most memorable characters. Shor makes a ...