Comedian Soupy Sales Dies at 83

I always liked this guy, a comedian who made people laugh without all the dirty and unfunny garbage that passes today for humor, and one more of a dying breed from that often called "greatest American Generation" that's leaving us far too fast just when the country needs more like them, not less.

From when Hollywood, like the country as a whole, was a better place filled with better people. Soupy Sales, a great American dead at 83 years old, RIP.

Entertainment News | Arts And Entertainment - FOXNews.com: "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 appearances across a half-century of laughs, has died. He was 83.

Sales died at Thursday night at Calvary Hospice in the Bronx, New York, said his former manager and longtime friend, Dave Usher. Sales had many health problems and entered the hospice last week, Usher said.

At the peak of his fame in the 1950s and '60s, Sales was one of the best-known faces in the nation, Usher said.

'If President Eisenhower would have walked down the street, no one would have recognized him as much as Soupy,' said Usher.

At the same time, Sales retained an openness to fans that turned every restaurant meal into an endless autograph-signing session, Usher said.

'He was just good to people,' Usher said."

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