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, has died. He was 83.

WASHINGTON, Oct 23 (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 ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Not only was Soupy Sales a TV star, he was a hit with the critics. Sales ...