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ticky
10-23-2009, 09:37 AM
I loved Soupy Sales. I guess an era is truly ending. Good bye, Soupy, and thanks for the laughs.


TV funny man Soupy Sales dies at 83 (http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/TV/10/23/soupy.sales/index.html)

http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2009/SHOWBIZ/TV/10/23/soupy.sales/art.soupy.sales.gi.jpg(CNN) -- Soupy Sales, a comedian from the golden era of television, died Thursday. He was 83.


Soupy Sales entertained generations of Americans with his off-the-cuff, wacky antics. He was 83.

The funny man seen many times on popular game shows died at a New York hospice, said Paul Dver, Sales' longtime friend and manager.

"We have lost a comedy American icon," Dver said. "I feel the personal loss, and I also feel the magic that he had around him being gone. That's a much more severe loss than a loss of a friend."

Sales was known for his long-running children's show "Lunch With Soupy Sales," which started in 1953 and began his trademark slapstick pie-throwing antics. The comedy show featured skits that culminated in Sales getting walloped with pies in the face.

"Soupy was the last of the great TV comics when you talk about Ernie Kovacs, Red Skelton, right down to Howdy Doody," Dver said. "But it was bigger than that, because he used a children's format aimed at the kids and then he would forget he was doing a kids' show and do a wild, unrehearsed, wacky improv for a half-hour every day for 15 years."

Later in his career, he was a regular on TV game shows, such as "Hollywood Squares," "To Tell the Truth" and "What's My Line?"

Sales recently fell backstage at a local Emmy awards show in New York and developed serious ailments after that, Dver said.

vamp1227
10-23-2009, 09:47 AM
I loved Soupy..He could always make me laugh..RIP

TimothyBFan
10-23-2009, 01:07 PM
RIP Soupy. I loved him when I was a kid! He was hilarious.

GlennLover
10-23-2009, 05:45 PM
I always enjoyed him too. A fall takes so much out of an elderly person. RIP

bernie's bender
10-23-2009, 06:42 PM
okay kids... go get mommies purse and look for pieces of paper that are green... when you find them... take them all an put them in an envelope and mail them to me at the station.....



A very funny, very subversive man hiding in a very straight look... Mort Sahl for little kids!

We'll miss you Soup!

I'll have to do the mouse dance tonight in your honor! gnash those teeth!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kP1_F9zEF7o&feature=PlayList&p=669882AEB7995573&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=25

Stars
10-24-2009, 09:17 AM
As a child, I enjoyed Soupy a lot myself. He always brought a smile to my face, and I will remember him with great joy. RIP Soupy.

Ive always been a dreamer
10-24-2009, 03:47 PM
How sad that Soupy died of complications from a fall. My thoughts are with his family. RIP Soupy

Prettymaid
10-24-2009, 05:30 PM
Soupy Sales has been around as long as TV has. Goodbye to a funny, funny man.