No More Pie

[tOkie]

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.

Sales died Thursday night at Calvary Hospice in the Bronx, New York, said his former manager and longtime friend, Dave Usher. Sales had many health problems and entered the hospice last week, Usher said.

At the peak of his fame in the 1950s and '60s, Sales was one of the best-known faces in the nation, Usher said.

"If President Eisenhower would have walked down the street, no one would have recognized him as much as Soupy," Usher said.

At the same time, Sales retained an openness to fans that turned every restaurant meal into an endless autograph-signing session, Usher said.

[Bluestone]

The world of comedy has indeed lost one of it's bright lights

Blue

[tOkie]

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[Algenon5]

Goodbye

[Nightposter]

Another Bright spot from my youth has gone out.....
Bless you Soupy for all the laughs...and the pies.

[tommygun]

I'm amazed that there are so many fans of Soupy out there... I used to live in the same apartment building in New York with him. I'd run into him in the elevator. A very nice guy, and the apartment buidling wasn't one of the out-of-sight expensive ones, either. I always thought it said something very positive about him...