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.

Soupy Sales has met that great pie in the sky. The comedian from the golden age of television who built his career on 20,000 pies to the face and was the inspiration for TV character Pee Wee Herman ...

NEW YORK -- If you never thought a pie in the face was funny, you just didn't get Soupy Sales. If you didn't want to splat him with a fluffy cream pie, or -- even better -- if you never yearned to be ...

As Roy Edroso pointed out the other day, most children’s programming in the New York area during the early and mid-1960s was dreck. There were exceptions: Chuck McCann, who read the funnies to us on ...

He claimed to have taken about 20,000 pies in his face over the course of his career and was a TV icon to the Baby Boomer generation. There’s word from New York that Soupy Sales, born Milton Supman in ...

From 1975: Soupy Sales, best-known as a pie-in-the-face slapstick comedian, was starring in the musical “Guys and Dolls” at Big Bend Community College in Moses Lake. He said he was enjoying his stint ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Soupy Sales, a pioneer of slapstick television comedy who once estimated he had taken 20,000 pies in the face, died on Thursday night in a New York hospice, the Detroit Free ...