Soupy Sales

Known for ActingBorn 1926-01-28Died 2009-10-22Franklinton, North Carolina, USA

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."Read more

Movies & web series

A Little Bit of Lipstck

Behind the Seams

Hullabaloo

Don't Push, I'll Charge When I'm Ready

Boy Meets World

The Judy Garland Show

Vacation Playhouse

Black Scorpion Returns

Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

The Carol Burnett Show

Hennesey

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Tonight Starring Jack Paar

The Dean Martin Show

Monsters

Saturday Supercade

Wings

Saturday Night Live

The Two Little Bears

The Beverly Hillbillies

What's My Line?

The Ed Sullivan Show

Route 66

The Merv Griffin Show

True Blue

The Johnny Cash Show

The Love Boat

Burke's Law

Love, American Style

The Mike Douglas Show

Holy Man

The Making of '...And God Spoke'

Birds Do It

Kraft Music Hall

The Rebel

The Hollywood Palace

The Rosie O'Donnell Show

Palmer's Pick-Up

Let's Go Mets

Donkey Kong

The Barbara McNair Show

Bill's Hat

Murder at N.B.C.