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 ...

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 ...

REASON TO WATCH Clips, clips, clips . . . WHAT IT'S ABOUT Written and directed by Smithtown native (now living in Bohemia) Marino Amoruso, this is an especially clip-rich overview of the unforgettable ...

WASHINGTON, Oct 23 (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 ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Not only was Soupy Sales a TV star, he was a hit with the critics. Sales ...

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 ...