The pie in the face as a comedy punch line was invented ages ago, probably about 10 minutes after the first pie. But whenever Soupy Sales was on the receiving end of a custard cannon–which was ...

Soupy Sales has met that great pie in the sky. The comedian from the golden age of television who built his career on 20,000 pies to the face and was the inspiration for TV character Pee Wee Herman ...

WASHINGTON, Oct 23 (Reuters) - Soupy Sales, a pioneer of slapstick television comedy who once estimated he had taken 20,000 pies in the face, died on Thursday night in a New York hospice, the Detroit ...