Soupy Sales

No Sex, Not Quite the City

Patricia Aranka Smith | Posted 01.15.2012

Read More: Reinvention, Anthony Bourdain, Soupy Sales, Mr. Haney, Bill Maher, Michelle Dugar, What?S Your Number?, Humor, Sex, Sex After 50, Jim Bob Duggar, George Clooney, Green Acres, Comedy, Love Post50, Fifty News
Patricia Aranka Smith

Here's a sentence I never thought I would write: "My sex life is like Texas" -- it's not hot, but for what seems like ages it has been awfully dry." I guess it's called the Lone Star state for a reason.

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Chats With George Benson, John McLaughlin, Fred Schneider of The B-52's, and L.A. Guns' Tracii Guns, Plus Lisa Hannigan's New Video

Mike Ragogna | Posted 12.20.2011

Read More: Fight Club, Eric Clapton, Lifetime, Tracii Guns, Mitch Mitchell, Grant Green, The Eagles, Snuff, Sly and the Family Stone, Ravi Shankar, Miles Davis, Sarah Palin, The 4th Dimension, Billy Joel, Tony White, L.A. Guns, The Beatles, Charlie Matthau, The Surperions, Soupy Sales, Kate Pierson, Axl Rose, Stevie Wonder, Johnny Smith, Elton John, Cindy Wilson, Lisa Hannigan, The Velvet Underground, David Byrne, Morbid Angel, Harvey Mason, John McLaughlin, Madonna, Freaky Deaky, Chuck Palahniuk, Stacey Blades, Paul McCartney, George Benson, Patti Smith, Nat King Cole, Ricky Wilson, John Mayall, Keith Strickland, Noel Redding, Nikki Sixx, Fred Schneider, Walter Matthau, Chuck Berry, Katy Perry, Mojo, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Elmore Leonard, Herbie Hancock, Zakir Hussain, B-52's, Jack Johnson, Abstract Logix, Lady GaGa, Larry Young, R.E.M., Jimi Hendrix, Guns N' Roses, Entertainment News
Mike Ragogna

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Top 5 Sports Stories

Len Berman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mark McGwire, New York Yankees, Soupy Sales, Arizona Cardinals, Tom Brady, World Series, Steve Phillips, Chris Hope, Alex Rodriguez, Derek Jeter, Don Mattingly, Chad Ochocinco, Philadelphia Phillies, New York Giants, New York News
Len Berman

There are cracks in the concrete walkways at the new Yankee Stadium. Hey, what do you expect for $1.5 billion?

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Dead Folks, 2009: The Missed and the Not Missed

Tallulah Morehead | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Michael Jackson, Budd Schulberg, E. Lynn Harris, Roy E. Disney, James Whitmore, Don Hewitt, Andy Rooney, Gene Barry, Patrick Mcgoohan, Fred Travalena, Farrah Fawcett, Arnold Stang, Ron Silver, Dominick Dunne, Robert Novak, Beatrice Arthur, Soupy Sales, David Lloyd, Frank Mccourt, Jennifer Jones, Ed McMahon, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Robert McNamara, John Updike, Susan Atkins, Dom Deluise, Army Archerd, Brittany Murphy, Larry Gelbart, Ricardo Montalban, Gale Storm, Natasha Richardson, Oral Roberts, Ricardo Montalbán, Doctor Who, Ted Kennedy, John Hughes, George Pal, Herbert G. Klein, Walter Cronkite, Karl Malden, David Carradine, Eastwick, Patrick Swayze, Peter Jackson, Patrick Stewart, Henry Gibson, Celebrity Obituraries, Obituaries, Entertainment News
Tallulah Morehead

Here's my own brief look at some of the more notable celebrity deaths of 2009. As always, they fall into two categories: "The Good Riddance List" and "The Folks We'll Miss List."

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Soupy Sales Dead At 83

AP | DAVID N. GOODMAN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Soupy Sales Obit, Soupy Sales, Soupy Sales Died, Soupy Sales Dead, Soupy Sales Dies, Entertainment News

DETROIT — 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 appe...

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Soupy Sales, Rod Serling -- Prophets Who Raised a Generation

Bradley Burston | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jews, Television, Soupy Sales, Haaretz, Entertainment, The Twilight Zone, Music, Comedy, Rod Serling, Minorities, Entertainment News
Bradley Burston

This was an era when the original Mad Men ruled the collective unconscious, when a gleaming pastel future, and, by extension, a lavishly sterile present, were held up as ideals and goals.

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Soupy Sales,The First Birdbath: From the Detroit Stories

Lester Sloan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Long Ranger, Black Tooth, Brace Beemer, Atomic Bomb, Europeans, Milton Supman, Roy Rogers, Sinatra, Soupy Sales, Hydrogen Bomb, Pall Mall, It's a Wonderful World, Ohio, Cincinnati, Miller Beer, White Fang, Soupy Shuffle, Detroit, Paradice Valley, Pistons, Birdbaths, Entertainment News
Lester Sloan

Soupy's pies were the great equalizers. Everyone wanted to be hit with a pie thrown by Soupy, even Sinatra. No one was too big or important to get a pie in the face.

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Remembering Soupy Sales

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Soupy Sales Appreciation, Rocky & Bullwinkle, Mad Magazine, 1960s, Soupy Sales, Media News
Marshall Fine

I'm not ashamed to say that Soupy Sales was a formative influence on my sense of humor as a preteen and adolescent, along with Rocky & Bullwinkle and the early Mad.

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