Soupy Sales 83

From Big Hollywood and the LA Times. You tube of Soupy and Alice cooper.
Comedians like Soupy are no where to be seen today. Talk about clean humor. no sex, no filth, just good humor.

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Soupy Sales dies at 83; slapstick comic had hit TV show in 1960s
The comedian acquired a cult-like following among adults with a show ostensibly meant for children. His signature routine, which he elevated to an art form, was pie-throwing." Soupy Sales dies at 83; slapstick comic had hit TV show in 1960s -- latimes.com

Soupy Sales, a comic with a gift for slapstick who attained cult-like popularity in the 1960s with a pie-throwing routine that became his signature, has died. He was 83.

Sales had numerous ailments and died Thursday at Calvary Hospital in the Bronx, said Kathy O'Connell, a longtime friend.

As the star of "The Soupy Sales Show," he performed live on television for 13 years in Detroit, Los Angeles and New York before the program went into syndication in the United States and abroad.