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 ...

He claimed to have taken about 20,000 pies in his face over the course of his career and was a TV icon to the Baby Boomer generation. There’s word from New York that Soupy Sales, born Milton Supman in ...

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 was 83.

From 1975: Soupy Sales, best-known as a pie-in-the-face slapstick comedian, was starring in the musical “Guys and Dolls” at Big Bend Community College in Moses Lake. He said he was enjoying his stint ...

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 ...

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 ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Not only was Soupy Sales a TV star, he was a hit with the critics. Sales ...

There were many revelations throughout the process, he says, particularly in learning about Sales’ extensive jazz ties as the “Soupy’s On” show, airing at 11 p.m., would host appearances by a ...