Soupy Sales, Television Comic Legend, Dead at 83

The Los Angeles Times reports that comic Soupy Sales, whose gift for slapstick attained him a cult-like popularity in the 1960s with a pie-throwing routine that became his signature, has died. He was 83.

Sales had numerous ailments and died last night, Thursday, October, 22nd at Calvary Hospital in the Bronx, said Kathy O'Connell, a longtime friend.

As the star of "The Soupy Sales Show," he performed live on television for 13 years in Detroit, Los Angeles and New York before the program went into syndication in the United States and abroad.

He joined WNBC-AM as a disc jockey in 1985, a stint best remembered as Sales filled the hours between famous shock jocks Don Imus and Howard Stern.

Sales is survived by his wife, Trudy, and two sons, Hunt and Tony, a pair of musicians who backed David Bowie in the band Tin Machine.

 

 

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