How is Hunt Sales dealing with his dad, Milton Soupy Sales, death?
Legendary comedian Milton ‘Soupy Sales’ Supman, 83, dies Soupy Sales as many of us fondly remember him died in New York last night at the age of 83. He was born Milton Supman in Franklinton, North Carolina on January 8, 1926 to Irving and Sadie Supman. His career launched in the early 1950’s; later Soupy moved to Detroit in 1953 and worked for WXYZ-TV (Channel 7), ABC’s O&O station. Sales is best known for his daily children’s television show, Lunch with Soupy Sales. The show was originally called 12 O’clock Comics, and was later known as The Soupy Sales Show. Improvised and slapstick in nature, Lunch with Soupy Sales was a rapid-fire stream of comedy sketches, gags, and puns, almost all of which resulted in Sales’ receiving a pie in the face, which became his trademark. The show originated in 1953 from the studios of WXYZ-TV in Detroit, Michigan. Beginning in October 1959, it was telecast nationally on the ABC television network. Clyde Adler operated all the puppets on Sales’ show in
Soupy Sales, the rubber-faced comedian who made an art form out of taking a pie in the face and delighted a generation of Detroiters with his loopy TV show on Channel 7 in the 1950s, died Thursday night in New York. Sales, who had been in ill health for several years, was 83. His former manager, Dave Usher, said Sales last week entered a Bronx hospice, where he died. He is survived by his wife, Trudy, and two sons, Hunt and Tony. “He was the first person from Detroit television whose first name had instant recognition from coast to coast,” said former Channel 7 anchorman Bill Bonds. “If you said ‘Soupy’ in New York, they knew who it was. If you said ‘Soupy’ in Los Angeles, everybody knew who it was. I’d worked in both markets, and the first thing anybody said when I mentioned I was from Detroit was ‘Soupy.’ ” Born Milton Supman in Franklinton, N.C., and raised in West Virginia, Sales was best known to Detroiters as the goofy yet cerebral host of “Lunch with Soupy,” a half-hour show tha
