Soupy Sales, 1926-2009

by Walter Olson on October 30, 2009

The comedian once served as an expert witness on pie-throwing. [Danny Jacobs/Maryland Daily Record, CAAFlog via Legal Blog Watch; L.A. Times]

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1 Doug 10.30.09 at 1:21 am

I certainly Soupy Sales, having spent my formative years in the Detroit Media Market. For many years, I believed that Detroit was his hometown. A very funny man.

2 John Burgess 10.30.09 at 10:12 am

Soupy got his break in Detroit, on WXYZ, but he was from N. Carolina, of all places!

He was certainly part of my early childhood: I’d rush back from my half-days at kindergarten to be home in time for ‘Lunch with Soupy’.

3 Walter Olson 10.30.09 at 10:59 am

I grew up in Detroit as well and watching Soupy Sales on WXYZ figures among my first media memories (or any other kind of memories).

4 Richard Nieporent 10.30.09 at 8:42 pm

Soupy Sales once asked the children watching his TV program to empty mommy’s purse and mail him all the pieces of green paper bearing pictures of the presidents.

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