BRONX, NY (TS) - Soupy Sales, a comic with a gift for slapstick who attained cult-like popularity in the 1960s, has died. He was 83.Legendary not particularly funny man Soupy Sales took the ultimate pie to the face last night. Sales had several health problems at the time of his passing, so it would seem when he was checked in to Calvary Hospital earlier last week, this Soup was anything but MMM MMM good.
Pictured here during one of his frequent LSD trips in the 60's, Sales made his career with a string of kids shows that eventually also became popular with extremely stoned "adults". The shows consisted of Soupy talking to puppets and his signature pie gag. From the linked article:
The gag became more than hilarious; it evolved into a hip badge of honor. Frank Sinatra was first in a long line of celebrities who clamored for the privilege to be cream-faced, including Tony Curtis, Mickey Rooney, Sammy Davis Jr., Dick Martin and Burt Lancaster.
Frankie baby, I never knew, you really did do it "your way". Too bad the show went off the air by the time Freddie Mercury became famous... They'd have never got him off the set.
Soupy was born Milton Supman on Jan. 28, 1926, in Franklinton, NC. The Supmans were the only Jewish family in town. Sales' father ran a dry goods store that sold sheets to the Ku Klux Klan. (this is true)
Soupy would later exercise these demons by naming the puppets on his show White Fang, Black Tooth, and Pookie. Pookie would often find himself in the middle of brutal turf wars between the other two puppets... but eventually they would all see eye to eye, bonding over their common love of fisting.
Good bye Soupy, we here at AreWeTooSoon? will always remember you for being the first legit celebrity we got to cover in real time...
Much like purchasing a thong at JC Penny, this Sales is final.
Love,
Chris Real
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