Comedian Soupy Sales Dead At 83

The comedy icon made pie-in-the-face gag a pop-culture phenomenon.By Gil Kaufman Soupy Sales in 2001 Photo: Scott Gries/ Getty Images It was a simple gag, but one that made Soupy Sales a household name: a pie in the face, or 20,000 pies, to be exact. That slapstick comedic trick, along with a warehouse of goofy faces and wacky characters helped elevate Sales (born Milton Supman) to one of the country's most beloved comedians in the late 1950s. Sales died on Thursday at the age of 83 a...

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