Soupy Sales

Also Known As: Milton Supman

Biography: Milton Supman, known professionally as Soupy Sales, was an American comedian, actor, radio/television personality, and jazz aficionado. He was best known for his local and network children's television show Lunch with Soupy Sales, a series of comedy sketches frequently ending with Sales receiving a pie in the face, which became his trademark. From 1968 to 1975 he was a regular panelist on the syndicated revival of What's My Line? and appeared on several other TV game shows. During the 1980s, Sales hosted his own show on WNBC-AM in New York City. Sales is best known for his daily children's television show, Lunch with Soupy Sales. The show was originally called 12 O'Clock Comics, and was later known as The Soupy Sales Show. Improvised and slapstick in nature, Lunch with Soupy Sales was a rapid-fire stream of comedy sketches, gags, and puns, almost all of which resulted in Sales receiving a pie in the face, which became his trademark. Sales developed pie-throwing into an art form: straight to the face, on top of the head, a pie to both ears from behind, moving into a stationary pie, and countless other variations. He claimed that he and his visitors had been hit by more than 20,000 pies during his career. He recounted a time when a young fan mistakenly threw a frozen pie at his neck and he "dropped like a pile of bricks."

Department: Acting

Place of Birth: Franklinton, North Carolina, USA

Adult: No

Birthday: January 28, 1926

Age: 99 years old

Gender: Male

Deathday: October 22, 2009

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Known For:

A Little Bit of Lipstck
Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words
Don't Push, I'll Charge When I'm Ready
The Two Little Bears
Behind the Seams
The Making of '...And God Spoke'
Birds Do It
Bill's Hat
Black Scorpion Returns
Murder at N.B.C.
Palmer's Pick-Up