If you weren’t around in 1965, it would be hard to grasp just what a huge cultural phenomenon Soupy Sales was at the time. This idol of my adolecence became a national celebrity when WNEW-TV briefly ...

Entertainer Soupy Sales died this week at age 83. He became a star of early children's television, when the goal was to entertain, not teach anything — unless it was how to throw a pie in your face.

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It’s a contextual biography, examining Sales’ accomplishments within the “domestic ideology” and gender politics of the time and digging into the roots of his schtick, as well as his acumen for ...

Usually my theory is: if it is elsewhere on the Atlantic's web site, you've already seen it. But in case anyone missed today's wonderful appreciation by Erik Tarloff, about Soupy Sales in his prime, I ...

DETROIT - 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 ...

WE both knew that it was on Ch. 5, weekday afternoons. But then Jeff King, one of the DVD’s producers, figured that the show had to have been on at 4 p.m., not 3:30, because we had to have had enough ...

The pie in the face as a comedy punch line was invented ages ago, probably about 10 minutes after the first pie. But whenever Soupy Sales was on the receiving end of a custard cannon–which was ...

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, died Thursday. He was 83.