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The once-legendary Soupy Sales, an immensely likable josher, has died at age 83. This video reminds that the best part of the New York-area Soupy Sales Show (also called Lunch with Soupy Sales) was the offscreen laughter from the crew. Sales' career peak happened during a live engagement at the Paramount theatre during the 1965 Easter holiday. I'd love to find a YouTube of Frank Sinatra's visit to Sales' show the same year.,
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Posted by Jeffrey Wells on October 23, 2009 at 9:32 AM
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actionman
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My dad told me a story once about Sales. Apparently Sales told kids via his show (during live broadcast) to go into their parent's bedrooms and take some of that "green paper" that was inside of their father's wallets and send it to him at the TV station. So funny.
Also, this is a great bit of video with Sales telling Bob Costas about a stripper incident:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzC58-sh_uQ
Posted by actionman
at October 23, 2009 9:53 AM
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Rich S.
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My favorite Sales story came when he tried to teach Fang the alphabet. Sales would hold up a card with a letter, Fang would make a grunt, and Sales would say, "that's right, Fang, that's an 'A'." And so on.
He got to "F." Fang makes a grunt. Sales, says, "no, Fang, that's an 'F', not a 'K." They argue a bit and finally Sales throws up his hands and says, "I don't get it, Fang. Every time I show you an F you see K!"
Juvenile, sure, but funny nonetheless.
Posted by Rich S.
at October 23, 2009 10:40 AM
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George Prager
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The only Soupy Sales thing I ever saw was BIRDS DO IT:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060169/
C'mon, Ben Stiller, where's the remake?
Posted by George Prager
at October 23, 2009 11:17 AM
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Stringer Bell
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I remember when Sales worked at WNBC (66AM in NY) and he'd get into fights with Howard Stern.
Posted by Stringer Bell
at October 23, 2009 1:58 PM
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Krazy Eyes
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It's uncanny how much his schtick really reminds me of Craig Ferguson's or I guess I should say it the other way around. Sales had more impact than I thought.
Posted by Krazy Eyes
at October 23, 2009 3:12 PM
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The Hoyk
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Always loved Soupy from childhood, never failed to make me laugh. Hope they serve cream pies in the great beyond.
There's one sour moment in his legacy that's always bugged me though. He was interviewed about the time of Paul Reubens' arrest for self-gratification, and he seemed almost gleeful in trashing him and the Pee-wee Herman franchise and declaring that his career as a kids' entertainer was over. Granted, it was a bad decision for Paul to be engaging in such behavior at the height of his success, and I can understand why a fellow family entertainment icon would take him to task for it, but it felt really ugly, like he considered him a rival and was happy to be rid of him. Thankfully, Paul did get that wonderful validation at the MTV awards a few months later. "Heard any good jokes lately?"
Posted by The Hoyk
at October 23, 2009 3:35 PM
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scooterzz
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the hoyk--- nice call...i was in the mtv awards audience that year (i can't remember why) and could actually feel the the crowd respond...it was one of 'those moments'.... and, yeah...i grew up in l.a. LOVING sales' show so the bitter, old man pee-wee dis was a bit disturbing......
oh....and that howard stern feud was totally bogus....
Posted by scooterzz
at October 23, 2009 10:54 PM
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Bob Violence
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so is the "F you see K" story and all the other "clever" dirty jokes attributed to the man -- shockingly enough, not everyone in the 1960s was a lobotomized rube too slow to pick up on stuff like that
(The stripper and "green pieces of paper" stories are true, though)
Posted by Bob Violence
at October 24, 2009 2:56 AM
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