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.
I hate it when someone I consider a social icon - someone who helped mold my character and make me the person I am today - passes away and their death gets little notice, by which I mean no flags at ...
He also had some communication with Sales’ widow Trudy via the estate executor and spoke with the widow of Clyde Adler, his Detroit floor manager and a puppeteer who helped create characters such as ...
WASHINGTON (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 Free ...
He also had some communication with Sales’ widow Trudy via the estate executor and spoke with the widow of Clyde Adler, his Detroit floor manager and a puppeteer who helped create characters such as ...