Despite the span in age difference, one of the pop culture connections I have with all four of my older siblings is we all grew up watching and admiring rubber-faced Soupy Sales, who died last week at ...

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, 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.

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 ...

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 ...

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. 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 ...

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 was presented with a medal and certificate for his “advancement and preservation of jazz” during “Brownie Speaks," a celebration of the legacy of Clifford Brown at The University of the ...

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 ...