Soupy Sales
Acting
Born 1926-01-28
Died 2009-10-22
Franklinton, North Carolina, USA
43 credits
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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."
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Filmography
Acting
34 credits
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Saturday Night Live
The Mike Douglas Show
The Love Boat
The Merv Griffin Show
The Carol Burnett Show
What's My Line?
Burke's Law
Boy Meets World
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
The Ed Sullivan Show
Monsters
Kraft Music Hall
The Rebel
Vacation Playhouse
The Hollywood Palace
Saturday Supercade
The Johnny Cash Show
Hullabaloo
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
The Judy Garland Show
Holy Man
The Barbara McNair Show
Donkey Kong
Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words
Birds Do It
Palmer's Pick-Up
The Making of '...And God Spoke'
Black Scorpion Returns
The Two Little Bears
Behind the Seams
Let's Go Mets
Don't Push, I'll Charge When I'm Ready
A Little Bit of Lipstck
Other credits
9 credits
Wings
Love, American Style
The Beverly Hillbillies
Route 66
The Dean Martin Show
True Blue
Hennesey
Murder at N.B.C.
Bill's Hat
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