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Raph's Girl

10-22-2009 11:03 PM

Comedian Soupy Sales has died

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091023/.../us_obit_sales

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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.

Former manager and longtime friend Dave Usher of Detroit says Sales died Thursday night at a hospice in New York. Usher says Sales had many health problems and entered the hospice last week.

Sales began his TV career in Detroit, where he drew a large audience on WXYZ-TV. He move to Los Angeles in 1961.

The comic's pie-throwing schtick became his trademark, and celebrities like Frank Sinatra, Tony Curtis and Shirley MacLaine queued up to take one on the chin.

Sales was born Milton Supman in North Carolina in 1926. He grew up in Huntington, W.Va.

:cry:

Ninjinister

10-22-2009 11:07 PM

Just read this on Bill Wixey's Facebook feed. Although I was too young to see all of his stuff firsthand, I did see them on reruns. He did some genuinely hilarious stuff.

Mecha Cow

10-23-2009 02:44 AM

"Soupy Sales?" Now you're just making stuff up.

Type 97 Chi-ha

10-23-2009 07:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Mecha Cow (Post 728270)

"Soupy Sales?" Now you're just making stuff up.

Oh, he was real all right. As real as an old heavy metal rock musician who renamed himself "Alice Cooper", but did not do so out of any pretense of being feminine (unless you count the long hair.)

Guitar_Raph

10-23-2009 09:17 PM

From 1983-85, he was the voice of Donkey Kong on Saturday Supercade, seen on CBS.

He also did many game shows (Match Game, Pyramid, Body Language, What's My Line, To Tell The Truth), even hosted an ABC game seein in 1976 called Jr. Almost Anything Goes (which Houston had Monday mornings @ 6:30 am).

Raph's Girl

10-23-2009 09:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Guitar_Raph (Post 728603)

[FONT="Franklin Gothic Medium"][SIZE="4"]From 1983-95, he was the voice of Donkey Kong on Saturday Supercade, seen on CBS.

Jimmony cricket! First Mario and now Donkey Kong?! :o

Navin Johnson

10-23-2009 10:09 PM

Good man, first class clean humor, comedy lost another pioneer

THE LEECH

10-25-2009 10:13 PM

He also fathered Tony and Hunt, who were amazing musicians best known for their work on Lust for Life by Iggy Pop and Tin Machine with David Bowie.

traf	10-31-2009 06:14 PM

Soupy also got caught in the middle of Howard Stern's feud with NBC back in the '80s.

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