Comedian Soupy Sales has died

*Raph's Girl* · 10-22-2009, 11:03 PM

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.

*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

"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

[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?!

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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Ninjinister 無問題 Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Moesko Island, WA Posts: 14,348	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. __________________

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Mecha Cow Gorgeous and modest too Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: The Netherlands Posts: 3,699	"Soupy Sales?" Now you're just making stuff up. __________________

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Guitar_Raph Superhero musician Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Dallas, Texas Posts: 2,191	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). __________________ Mikey drums with nunchucks! Last edited by Guitar_Raph; 10-29-2009 at 04:51 AM.

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Navin Johnson Stone Warrior Join Date: May 2009 Posts: 544	Good man, first class clean humor, comedy lost another pioneer __________________ Lord loves a workin' man

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THE LEECH Mouser Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 13	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.

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traf Random Punk Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: United States Posts: 30	Soupy also got caught in the middle of Howard Stern's feud with NBC back in the '80s.