Hindsight
Joined: 02 Feb 2009
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 Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 4:40 am Post subject: Stone cold Soupy |
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October 23, 2009
Soupy Sales, Slapstick Comedian, Dies at 83
By RICHARD GOLDSTEIN
Soupy Sales, whose zany television routines turned the smashing of a pie to the face into a madcap art form, died Thursday night. He was 83.
Mr. Sales�s former manager, Dave Usher, said the entertainer died in a hospice in New York City after suffering from multiple health problems.
Cavorting with his puppet sidekicks White Fang, Black Tooth, Pookie the Lion and Hobart and Reba, the heads in the pot-bellied stove, transforming himself into the private detective Philo Kvetch, and playing host to the ever-present �nut at the door,� Soupy Sales became a television favorite of youngsters and an anarchic comedy hero for teenagers and college students.
Clad in a top hat, sweater and bow tie, shuffling through his Mouse dance, he reached his slapstick heyday in the mid-1960s on �The Soupy Sales Show,� a widely syndicated program based at WNEW-TV in New York.
Some 20,000 pies were hurled at Soupy Sales or at visitors to his TV shows in the 1950s and �60s, by his own count. The victims included Frank Sinatra, Tony Curtis and Jerry Lewis, all of whom turned up just for the honor of being creamed. |
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-soupy-sales23-2009oct23,0,699167.story
http://www.latimes.com/news/la-me-soupy-sales-appreciation-m,0,6358514.story
http://www.newsday.com/long-island/soupy-sales-felt-heat-for-joke-on-new-year-s-day-show-1.1545511
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/23/arts/television/23sales.html?hp
What canya say? First Buffalo Bob, then Mr. Rogers, and now Soupy Sales. It's a sad day in the neighborhood.
But there will always be one choice bit of videotape to remember him by:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdUD4giJPOk
Watch closely.
Now THAT was a children's show!
(Oh, no. The video was removed from youtube. It showed the stripper who showed up at the door on the set for Soupy's birthday, all of the stripper. There were two tapes, including one from a camera that didn't go on the air, though Soupy did not know that at the time. They say he thought he was going to lose his job.) |
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