soupy sales

soupy sales

Soupy Sales at the age 83, died yesterday. He organized a baby in the afternoon show that reached the height of the popularity of the mid-1960s. He was quite unlike that of other children-show hosts, or any other, ERA. He was soft-spoken, grandfatherly as he was Mr. Rogers, as Captain Kangaroo, he wanted to teach something, like Mr. Wizard.

What Soupy was was a unique combination of silly and hip. He mixed slapstick with self-conscious irony. He was forever getting a pie thrown in his face. He talked to puppets, especially two — White Fang and Black Tooth — that were really little more than offstage voices, with arms that entered the camera frame. He played jazz on his show and snapped his fingers like a nightclub performer. Cool cats and kitties of the era, like Frank Sinatra and Shirley MacLaine, dropped by to visit and take a pie in the face, because Soupy was, for a little while, himself very cool.

Soupy Sales Show is set for interior said, "Club House, but off-camera guffaws - was when the colon to permanent staff, he laughed libs - introduced the idea of generations, that there are real people behind the TV cameras that show it is not a fantasy world . 'Well, before Larry Sanders Show, was busy stinking break fourth wall surrounding the creation of TV.