Soupy Sales
Soupy Sales (January 8, 1926 – October 22, 2009) was an American comedian, actor, radio-TV personality and host, 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 was born Milton Supman, in Franklinton in Franklin County, North Carolina to Irving and Sadie Supman. His father, a dry goods merchant, had immigrated to America fromHungary in 1894. Sales had two siblings, Leonard Supman (deceased) and Jack Supman (born 1921).[citation needed] His was the onlyJewish family in the town; Sales joked that local Ku Klux Klan members bought the sheets used for their robes from his father's store.
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