Soupy Sales Dead

Soupy Sales, who loved to get a pie in the face, has died at a hospice in New York. Soupy Sales was a love-to-get-them-laughing guy who started his TV career in Cincinnati and Cleveland, then, Detroit and in 1961, Los Angeles.

Along with Pookie and White Fang and Black Tooth, the trademark of "The Soupy Sales Show" was getting a pie in the face. Sales would get one. His celebrity guests would get one, including stars like Frank Sinatra, Tony Curtis, Shirley MacLaine and Alice Cooper. At one point, Sales said he'd "probably be remembered for the pies, and that's all right."

Sales also is remembered for a bit where he told the kids watching the show to sneak into their parents' room, take the green paper from their wallets and mail it to him. In return, they'd get a post card from Puerto Rico. He got suspended for a week for that one. Soupy Sales was 83. He had a variety of
health problems.