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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...