I loved this zany man. Mr. Sales became a friend over the years and I'm grateful to have had him and his lovely wife in my home and being in their home. A great day for me was after his stroke, he was a guest on my show, and we had a wonderful conversation on his terrace. I'm deeply grateful. Mr. Sales, a hardcore jazz lover had on his show, Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr. among others. Bless you, friend.
Great story sir…. Can you share a little about what it was like chatting with him? What sort of personality did he have when he wasn’t in ‘entertainment’ mode?
I wasn't born until 1967, so my experience of Soupy was in the later years (when he was already a Broadcasting Legend). But, I never felt pandered to by Soupy Sales, Fred Rogers, or My Parents. I thank all of them for helping me understand that being honest and responsible meant you got to have more fun in the long run.
But in women's defense, it's kind of hard to be funny when you are expected to be quiet, demure and "ladylike". So you can't really blame them for not being as funny.
I saw him in a downtown club in NYC. He pointed out a tie dye t-shirt I was wearing, and said it looked like the NBC peacock threw up on me. I loved Soupy!
Soupy NEVER said that or any of the other nonsense people have attributed to him over the years. Soupy even had a standing offer of $20,000 for anyone who could prove he ever said those things
Soupy was way ahead of his time and the censors. As a kid I never missed his show and always wondered what went on behind that door. The best thing about his show was it appealed to so many, except the adults. RIP in wild dog.
I used to watch the Soupy Sales Show faithfully when I was a kid and loved every minute. Still have vivid memories of some great sketches, like the one with Frank NastasiI outside Soupy's door offering to sell Soupy a ticket to the roller derby. Soupy excitedly pays him for the ticket and starts to close the door when Nastasil, in his classic fashion, holds the door open with, "Wait a second; wait a second. You can't go to a roller derby without popcorn and a hot dog, can you?" Soupy says eagerly, "Oh, you're right. I definitely need a hot dog and popcorn", whereupon Nastasil's arm goes out of the frame and quickly comes back with a box of popcorn and a stale hot dog which he hands to Soupy and says, "That'll be three bucks". Soupy whips out his wallet again and forks out several dollar bills. When Soupy goes to shut the door again it's "Wait and second; wait a second. You can't attend a roller derby without sitting on a seat cushion, can you?" and Soupy has this big question mark on his face staring at the camera before, "Oh, you're right. I need a seat cushion." After Soupy's arms are full with a seat cushion, a rally flag and he's trying to eat the hot dog and popcorn, Frank then sets up this folding table, runs a couple of empty roller derby shoes around on the table and knocks one of them off with the other one, shouting like an announcer, "And one skater goes down!" before Soupy throws him out with "Get out of here. And now it's time for the weather report." What was funny about Frank's bits was that all you ever saw was his hand and arm gesturing to Soupy at Soupy's front door, with his voice off-camera. He was also White Fang. I ran into Soupy decades later at a local mall where he was hosting a demonstration of toys for kids. I asked him when all his shows were going to be released on DVD and he told me one of the most heartbreaking things I'd ever heard: the blockhead executives at the network had erased all the magnetic tapes these precious shows had been recorded on to make way for new shows. What you see here on RUclips has been compiled from numerous private collections but about 99% of the shows themselves have been lost forever thanks to those greedy, heartless television executives.
I understand that ANOTHER DOPE discarded a MASSIVE amount of Steve Allen's early content!!! CRIMINAL!!! I think the content he described--in this context--was from his NYC shows.
He was a trip! I never really understood all of the adult humor but of course I loved White fang and Soupy's wonderful facial expressions! He's actually funnier now that I'm older. Love the actors on the radio-a bit of Borsht belt humor! Lyrics to home on the range-very funny!
Yes, I used to race home from college to watch Soupy, White Fang, Black Tooth and Hippy and Pookie. All those years ago, and I still laugh hilariously. Count Dracula at the door "hi Count" "one two three" Seriously childish nonsense but this show was so wonderfully insane. Thanks for posting. Janice M
Ah, Soupy! :( It's been almost 3 years since he passed away and I am still sad and reminiscing about how he made my day before I went to school :) I am so glad I found his shows again on cable! As a little girl, I remember whenever he blew a kiss at the camera, I would blow a kiss back to him, silly as that sounds! As an adult, both my daughter and I watch his show every day! Here's to you, Soupy, for all the love you've given, Muah back to you!!!
omg, I loved the man! I never missed an episode! And yes, I remember the infamous show where he told us kids to go into the next room, and remove those crinkled up, green pieces of paper with the pictures of the old men on them. LOL! There were a lot of stupid kids who actually DID that, thankfully, I was not one of them. I knew that was stealing. But that was the end of our beloved Soupy Sales. :( Saw him perform at the Old Rahway Theatre back in the early 90's. He was just adorable!
I was 6 years old at the time and I asked my mom for a dollar and she wanted to know what it was for and when I pointed to the TV and told her he wanted us to send him money she just dismissed it and said no but I would have been one of those dumb kids ... haha . I don't think this clip here showed the best of Soupy Sales only a little bit of it was good
Soupy later claimed he received $80K (along with a lot of monopoly money). He was suspended from the station and the next day there was such a crowd outside the studio demanding Soupy be reinstated
Thanks for posting, amscentral!!! Much enjoyed!!! I recall his TV show as a boy in the mid-to-late '60's, but have no memories of the "content". Now as an adult, I am capable of appreciating his talent.
Over several years ago a personal friend of my parents Lou Anderson who was originally Claribel the Clown passed away he also conducted a jazz band and the held a memorial for him at Birdland. Soupy was in the audience (and unfortunately in declining health) I was able to meet him and thank him for his being in my childhood.
Thank you for the post. It brings back memories...a [thinly veiled]kids' show for adults lol. I laughed at it then and still laugh at it now. Rocky and Bullwinkle was, to me, another kids show with, sly, sneaky adult [sub texted] humor. It seemed to be able to have two levels of humorous jokes going on at the same time, and the adult didn't have to worry about answering a childs question of, "Why are you laughing?". Genius.
I vaguely recall him on the air when I was very young. This is way funnier than I recall. Shows me nearly all his stuff was over my head. This was a kid's show? LOL. I can see he may well have added to the cultural mix that could have in a way influenced the creators of Laugh-In and Pee Wee Herman's show. Thanks for the video.
He was the best I was in high school when he was on TV and I never missed his show. The best line ever was " Grandma can't cook but she sure can make that banana cream"
That's hilarious!! Those double entendres flew right over our heads when we were kids, lol!! I wonder how he got past the censors back in the days when married people had separate beds, lol!!
@Pat Hughes,Soupy never said that. In his book he was very adamant that he never worked “blue”,and he even had a standing offer of $15,000 for anyone who could show evidence of him ever having ever said the things he was claimed to have said. Soupys theory as to how these rumors got started was that children would get caught telling an off color joke by a parent and then when asked where they heard it,they would say “soupy sales” to avoid getting in trouble. Despite the repeated times he addressed these rumors,they still persist to this day.
He made a public appearance in 1961 in West Los Angeles, at an International House of Pancakes. My aunt took my brother, sister, and me, and her own two littler kids to see him. As soon as he appeared someone hit him with a pie. He was posing for pictures with the kids, and when he gave my cousin a glass of water the photographer snapped the picture! We still have it. :)
I took a shot and was able to locate the phone number of the mini-sized location right in front of a scene that was set up to do a sketch involving a train tracks on the floor directly in front the 3 metal chairs that were located for us as "visitors" to enjoy the short time of the sketch. I never remember the "sketch" being shown on TV, or what the subject was. I do know that the short half--hour stay as visitors to the taping was a true THRILL. Never saw the subject on line when it was shown.
B. Allen I was in the studio when these shows were taped. Chuck McCann was very funny too. He was most of the time drunk, but he did he show well. Soupy loved the crew. I was 10 feet from him when he did his show. When he got a pie in the face, the sound effect was a blank starter pistol. Once soupy came over and took the blank out. When he got hit with the pie, all you heard was a "click" of the starter pistol. The whole crew broke out laughing. He also uses to do live commercials and it was so funny when the props didnt work. Watching him get arounf it was sooo funny. This is why the show was so popular as you sisnt knkw what was going to happen next
Who remembers when Soupy told the kids to go to their daddy's jacket and take the money and send it to Soupy? I do. He got into trouble for that one. I absolutely loved Soupy Sales. His humor was adult and we precocious kids got him. I was 11 living in New York.
SirWolfgaar, the sloppiness is the whole beauty of the thing. This was live or taped live stuff with a shoestring budget. Funny is funny regardless of the situation. Soupy was a most funny fellow till the end. Saw him at Caroline's in NYC in the late 80's or 90's and cracked everyone's shit up! I love this guy and that old school basic humor is just not done anymore. At least not often enough.
@@cattycorner8 yea for reals # they're on bass and drums Iggy pops "lust for life" and the rest of that great album and When Bowie released tin machine in the ninety's they were the rythem section. Yes they rock.
This show was good, clean fun back when I was a kid. One thing that made it so good was the guys in the background would sometimes throw in something that had not been planned. Soupy then had to adlib the whole thing and most of it was left in because it was funny.
Yeah man, that's right, I remember now! Everyday I would rush home for lunch and to watch Soupy Sales on TV. Laughed my ass off. Dem's we're good times.
What, no Count Dracula? "Hi Count" "one two three" says Count. Beautiful slapstick humor, including many tributes on the radio to Yiddish humor. A tribute to Molly Goldberg. I loved White Fang and Black Tooth. Arrr arrrar. Everyone on the set was having a great time. Miss you Soupy.
The song by Pookie at the end about his neighbor beating his wife and his Super getting tight, I think would have a tough time slipping past Standards and Practices today..LOL!!! Especially on a supposed kiddie show...
(cont'd) he could find. He then formed a firm called Soupbone to release the best of what was left of his classic Metromedia shows on home video. In between his loss of the original videotapes and discovery of the kines, Soupy shot a series of color remakes of his old series at Golden West Broadcasters in L.A. in the '70s. They're OK, but lack the magic of his work in New York at Metromedia's Channel 5 studios.
That radio of his was the best part of the show; you never knew what kind of madness would emerge from it! "Chicken soup. Give him some chicken soup." [for a dead man!] "Madame, it wouldn't help.' "It wouldn't hoit..." ROFLMAO!!!
Saw him as a much older man in "The Making of '... and God Spoke".. He said, " I stayed at a motel, this morning the maid knocked, asked if she could come in and clean up. She came in, took a shower, and left." He played an actor who got the part of Moses in a terrible, low budget film. They ran out of money and had to use product placement in their bible movie. He came down from Sinai with a six pack of cola. "He has also given us this wonderful new beverage to drink. It is an elixer from the Lord."
My brother and I would howl with laughter watching this show as boys. Literally, it was like doing something bad without getting into trouble. This is a kids version Monty Python, Second City and National Lampoon.
Soupy used lots of popular music,and some jazz numbers during his “Pookie” bits. Does anywhere here know who the singer of the “home on the range” parody is? Sounds like Herb Duncan?
Does anyone have the clip where soupy asks the kids to go into daddy's wallet and send him those "green pieces of paper?". Thats the one that nearly got him banned from tv.
I was Soupy's production assistant at Channel 5 studios in NY. We laughed all day AND got paid on Friday.
Steve, just curious? Any idea what Soupys salary was back then?
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Thanks for popping in! Would love to hear more stories of what it was like to work with Soupy. Looks like it was a gas!
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@@anagramconfirmed1717 Actually we do. Just because YOU are a liar, doesn't mean everyone else is. Just say'en 👍
What a treat to see The Soupy Sales Show on RUclips. This was the only Comedian that would make me laugh when I was very young.
Loved Soupy ! His show was an original !
Great trip down memory lane! I loved Soupy Sales!
So did I.
The Soup-the joy that you brought us!
I loved this zany man. Mr. Sales became a friend over the years and I'm grateful to have had him and his lovely wife in my home and being in their home. A great day for me was after his stroke, he was a guest on my show, and we had a wonderful conversation on his terrace. I'm deeply grateful.
Mr. Sales, a hardcore jazz lover had on his show, Sinatra and
Sammy Davis Jr. among others. Bless you, friend.
What great memories 😊
Yes. A very nice man. I'm grateful.
Great story sir….
Can you share a little about what it was like chatting with him?
What sort of personality did he have when he wasn’t in ‘entertainment’ mode?
Maybe he didn't know it at the time, but Soupy was teaching us that adults could have a childish sense of humor. A tremendously funny man.
Soupy was also teaching children that they could have a sophisticated sense of humor as well as an appreciation for music!
I wasn't born until 1967, so my experience of Soupy was in the later years (when he was already a Broadcasting Legend). But, I never felt pandered to by Soupy Sales, Fred Rogers, or My Parents. I thank all of them for helping me understand that being honest and responsible meant you got to have more fun in the long run.
Kinda like Pee-wee Herman. I never missed Soupy in the 50s and early 60s
Not really. Men have always known this and been allowed by society to embrace that side of themselves, which is why they make better comedians.
But in women's defense, it's kind of hard to be funny when you are expected to be quiet, demure and "ladylike". So you can't really blame them for not being as funny.
"Do you want your name up in lights?" "Then change your name to EXIT" LOL.
I had the privilege of seeing Soupy live on stage about 20 years ago and he was funnier than ever.
Man you were really lucky I would have loved to have seen him in person
I saw him in a downtown club in NYC. He pointed out a tie dye t-shirt I was wearing, and said it looked like the NBC peacock threw up on me. I loved Soupy!
I am one more to consider you lucky. I think I would laugh a lot only by seeing him in the street.
Watching Lunch With Soupy Sales @ noon on Saturday is a happy childhood memory. ☺
I used to watch Soupy Sales when I was a child. This video brought back some pleasant memories.
He got in big trouble with the law at one point, with a little postcard prank.
Did you used to mail him little green pieces of paper when you were a kid? lol
did you ever laugh?
Everyone remember Soupy's line- "My wife can’t make an apple pie but she can sure make my banana cream.”
YES, YES, YES!!!
Soupy NEVER said that or any of the other nonsense people have attributed to him over the years. Soupy even had a standing offer of $20,000 for anyone who could prove he ever said those things
Soupy was and still is the best !
Adored the man as a six year old, original and hysterical, he sent me a post card, i never forgot
Soupy was way ahead of his time and the censors. As a kid I never missed his show and always wondered what went on behind that door. The best thing about his show was it appealed to so many, except the adults. RIP in wild dog.
I used to watch the Soupy Sales Show faithfully when I was a kid and loved every minute. Still have vivid memories of some great sketches, like the one with Frank NastasiI outside Soupy's door offering to sell Soupy a ticket to the roller derby. Soupy excitedly pays him for the ticket and starts to close the door when Nastasil, in his classic fashion, holds the door open with, "Wait a second; wait a second. You can't go to a roller derby without popcorn and a hot dog, can you?" Soupy says eagerly, "Oh, you're right. I definitely need a hot dog and popcorn", whereupon Nastasil's arm goes out of the frame and quickly comes back with a box of popcorn and a stale hot dog which he hands to Soupy and says, "That'll be three bucks". Soupy whips out his wallet again and forks out several dollar bills. When Soupy goes to shut the door again it's "Wait and second; wait a second. You can't attend a roller derby without sitting on a seat cushion, can you?" and Soupy has this big question mark on his face staring at the camera before, "Oh, you're right. I need a seat cushion." After Soupy's arms are full with a seat cushion, a rally flag and he's trying to eat the hot dog and popcorn, Frank then sets up this folding table, runs a couple of empty roller derby shoes around on the table and knocks one of them off with the other one, shouting like an announcer, "And one skater goes down!" before Soupy throws him out with "Get out of here. And now it's time for the weather report." What was funny about Frank's bits was that all you ever saw was his hand and arm gesturing to Soupy at Soupy's front door, with his voice off-camera. He was also White Fang.
I ran into Soupy decades later at a local mall where he was hosting a demonstration of toys for kids. I asked him when all his shows were going to be released on DVD and he told me one of the most heartbreaking things I'd ever heard: the blockhead executives at the network had erased all the magnetic tapes these precious shows had been recorded on to make way for new shows. What you see here on RUclips has been compiled from numerous private collections but about 99% of the shows themselves have been lost forever thanks to those greedy, heartless television executives.
I understand that ANOTHER DOPE discarded a MASSIVE amount of Steve Allen's early content!!! CRIMINAL!!! I think the content he described--in this context--was from his NYC shows.
@@456zounds Death penalty!
He was a trip! I never really understood all of the adult humor but of course I loved White fang and Soupy's wonderful facial expressions! He's actually funnier now that I'm older. Love the actors on the radio-a bit of Borsht belt humor! Lyrics to home on the range-very funny!
Yes, I used to race home from college to watch Soupy, White Fang, Black Tooth and Hippy and Pookie. All those years ago, and I still laugh hilariously. Count Dracula at the door "hi Count" "one two three" Seriously childish nonsense but this show was so wonderfully insane. Thanks for posting. Janice M
I cherish these clips of Soup! He was so funny, so adorable, one of my first crushes.
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Ah, Soupy! :( It's been almost 3 years since he passed away and I am still sad and reminiscing about how he made my day before I went to school :) I am so glad I found his shows again on cable! As a little girl, I remember whenever he blew a kiss at the camera, I would blow a kiss back to him, silly as that sounds! As an adult, both my daughter and I watch his show every day! Here's to you, Soupy, for all the love you've given, Muah back to you!!!
This was the most original comment I have read in this post. It shows how Soupy was important to many children.
That’s a beautiful story….
I hope you and your daughter are well..!
I was on the crew and yea we had fun. We were his best audience.
omg, I loved the man! I never missed an episode! And yes, I remember the infamous show where he told us kids to go into the next room, and remove those crinkled up, green pieces of paper with the pictures of the old men on them. LOL! There were a lot of stupid kids who actually DID that, thankfully, I was not one of them. I knew that was stealing. But that was the end of our beloved Soupy Sales. :( Saw him perform at the Old Rahway Theatre back in the early 90's. He was just adorable!
I was 6 years old at the time and I asked my mom for a dollar and she wanted to know what it was for and when I pointed to the TV and told her he wanted us to send him money she just dismissed it and said no but I would have been one of those dumb kids ... haha .
I don't think this clip here showed the best of Soupy Sales only a little bit of it was good
Soupy later claimed he received $80K (along with a lot of monopoly money). He was suspended from the station and the next day there was such a crowd outside the studio demanding Soupy be reinstated
That was the end! I don’t understand !
Thanks for posting, amscentral!!! Much enjoyed!!! I recall his TV show as a boy in the mid-to-late '60's, but have no memories of the "content". Now as an adult, I am capable of appreciating his talent.
I was surprised and proud of him to learn he was a WW ll veteran. and fought on okinawa
Me too!
WOW...FOR REAL...DANG TOO KEWL...STILL MY HERO...MOM HATED HIM...I LOVED THE SHOW...I JOKE TO THIS DAY...HE WAS VERY INFLUENTIAL...YUP...THAT ONE...🤪🤤
Over several years ago a personal friend of my parents Lou Anderson who was originally Claribel the Clown passed away he also conducted a jazz band and the held a memorial for him at Birdland. Soupy was in the audience (and unfortunately in declining health) I was able to meet him and thank him for his being in my childhood.
I just couldn't get enough of this show It was the best
Loved the characters, Pookie, Hippy, Blacktooth, Whitefang.
Thank you for the post. It brings back memories...a [thinly veiled]kids' show for adults lol. I laughed at it then and still laugh at it now. Rocky and Bullwinkle was, to me, another kids show with, sly, sneaky adult [sub texted] humor. It seemed to be able to have two levels of humorous jokes going on at the same time, and the adult didn't have to worry about answering a childs question of, "Why are you laughing?". Genius.
Great slapschtik. Very funny man. All of his TV stuff should have been preserved for posterity. RIP Soupy.
I vaguely recall him on the air when I was very young. This is way funnier than I recall. Shows me nearly all his stuff was over my head. This was a kid's show? LOL. I can see he may well have added to the cultural mix that could have in a way influenced the creators of Laugh-In and Pee Wee Herman's show. Thanks for the video.
Ahhh, the memories! I used to rush home to watch him.
He was the best I was in high school when he was on TV and I never missed his show.
The best line ever was " Grandma can't cook but she sure can make that banana cream"
I was a little kid and me and my dad both thought it was the best show on TV. Now I understand why my dad liked it so much.
That's hilarious!! Those double entendres flew right over our heads when we were kids, lol!! I wonder how he got past the censors back in the days when married people had separate beds, lol!!
@Pat Hughes,Soupy never said that. In his book he was very adamant that he never worked “blue”,and he even had a standing offer of $15,000 for anyone who could show evidence of him ever having ever said the things he was claimed to have said.
Soupys theory as to how these rumors got started was that children would get caught telling an off color joke by a parent and then when asked where they heard it,they would say “soupy sales” to avoid getting in trouble.
Despite the repeated times he addressed these rumors,they still persist to this day.
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I watched his show, if it wasn't exact it was close. He did stuff like this all the time
How about take the money out of the pocketbook and send it to me
You can see where Laugh In borrowed from this - the gags, interrupted by music, followed by gag, also "bippy"
wish they had all of soupy sales TV shows....he is so funny...love it
He made a public appearance in 1961 in West Los Angeles, at an International House of Pancakes. My aunt took my brother, sister, and me, and her own two littler kids to see him. As soon as he appeared someone hit him with a pie. He was posing for pictures with the kids, and when he gave my cousin a glass of water the photographer snapped the picture! We still have it. :)
This was Vaudeville on the small screen with hipster added as spice.
Fantastic. We loved him back then.
What a ball that crew must have had working on this show.
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I took a shot and was able to locate the phone number of the mini-sized location right in front of a scene that was set up to do a sketch involving a train tracks on the floor directly in front the 3 metal chairs that were located for us as "visitors" to enjoy the short time of the sketch. I never remember the "sketch" being shown on TV, or what the subject was. I do know that the short half--hour stay as visitors to the taping was a true THRILL. Never saw the subject on line when it was shown.
Grew up watching this as well as Chuck McCann. What a great childhood I had!
yep me too...we were so lucky!!!
Wonderama!!
B. Allen I was in the studio when these shows were taped. Chuck McCann was very funny too. He was most of the time drunk, but he did he show well.
Soupy loved the crew. I was 10 feet from him when he did his show.
When he got a pie in the face, the sound effect was a blank starter pistol. Once soupy came over and took the blank out. When he got hit with the pie, all you heard was a "click" of the starter pistol. The whole crew broke out laughing. He also uses to do live commercials and it was so funny when the props didnt work. Watching him get arounf it was sooo funny. This is why the show was so popular as you sisnt knkw what was going to happen next
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@@IvorPresents I remember all of them no wonder I never got my homework done ! In the imotal words of archie bunker " Those were the days"
Soupy was on XETV Channel 6 in San Diego back in 1966. It came on very early so I could watch it before leaving for school.
Who remembers when Soupy told the kids to go to their daddy's jacket and take the money and send it to Soupy? I do. He got into trouble for that one. I absolutely loved Soupy Sales. His humor was adult and we precocious kids got him. I was 11 living in New York.
U tube, you are fantastic.
I used to watch Soupy Sales every morning before going g to school.
One of the funniests thing of Sunny shows is the fact that he interact with someone who shows only his arms.
I so lucky to see him at The Coach House in California. He was obviously much older but the jokes just kept coming. I laughed until it hurt.
SirWolfgaar, the sloppiness is the whole beauty of the thing. This was live or taped live stuff with a shoestring budget. Funny is funny regardless of the situation. Soupy was a most funny fellow till the end. Saw him at Caroline's in NYC in the late 80's or 90's and cracked everyone's shit up! I love this guy and that old school basic humor is just not done anymore. At least not often enough.
He was so damn hip in 1966 . Are his boys still rocking. They were great with Bowie.
Bowie?? for reals?
@@cattycorner8 yea for reals # they're on bass and drums Iggy pops "lust for life" and the rest of that great album and When Bowie released tin machine in the ninety's they were the rythem section. Yes they rock.
The radio bit is the best!
If soupy was on today he'd still be number one!
I grew up thinking: "Why couldn't my dad be Soupy Sales instead of the a__hole I got stuck with?"
....life ain't fair, I guess
This show was good, clean fun back when I was a kid.
One thing that made it so good was the guys in the background would sometimes throw in something that had not been planned. Soupy then had to adlib the whole thing and most of it was left in because it was funny.
Yes, and the pie in his face! As a kid, I couldn't wait for that part!
and taped live.
68 years old and I still was laughing at pookie . Way to go there bobbie.
All you have to do is listen to the lyrics of the song Pookie is singing and you think " how in hell did they get away with this?"
right- each Saturday night the Super got tight....
Soupy Sales was a genus.
"Where the neighbor's not beating his wife." I wasn't expecting comedy to be so dark for a kid's show back in the day XD
Was really an adult show disguised as a children's show. So much sexual innuendo I didn't get I grew up.
Great memories. Soupy was the bomb!
Hilarious. This show would kill it these days.
I'm not sure if me & coworkers could have coped without being raised on this type of humor. Antidote for idealizm
WE MISS YOU SOUPY.
Still miss soupy to this day.
I feel the same way. I still miss him.
Such an innovative comedy show. I loved Soup then and I still laugh my head off.
Soupy had the best rubber face! Just watching his expressions cracks me up.
Simpler times. I miss them.
oh yeah
simpler? not in all ways...
Vietnam, assassinations .... ya know, little things like that.
@@brainsareus Compared to today, much simpler.
Lunch with Soupy Sales! All of my friends came to my house and had lunch with Soupy.
Yeah man, that's right, I remember now! Everyday I would rush home for lunch and to watch Soupy Sales on TV. Laughed my ass off. Dem's we're good times.
Thank you for posting.
So funny!! A very long time fan!
What, no Count Dracula? "Hi Count" "one two three" says Count. Beautiful slapstick humor, including many tributes on the radio to Yiddish humor. A tribute to Molly Goldberg. I loved White Fang and Black Tooth. Arrr arrrar. Everyone on the set was having a great time. Miss you Soupy.
.. Soupy says "leave us not to forget that a Big Cat can hurt you ... but a little pussy never hurt anybody", yeah !
comedy has come a long way....for one thing it`s actually funny now.
LOVE YOU SOUPY !!
Hey Z--great post. One of my influences. And yes it was the money shtick that got him.Take care!
The kids show was on in the daytime. At night his show was geared for the adults :)
This brings back too many memories
I loved Soupy Sales! As a kid, I maybe didn’t get it, but I loved him
My family saw him live at The Bergen Mall, Paramus, NJ.
SP is def clever as hell, I love that show too. They're more elaborate than FG, but I was always a FG fan so I'm loyal to it
Never seen Soupy before this, but now that I have... does anyone else get a real sense of him having influenced Craig Ferguson's Late Late Show alot?
Who didn't he influence??
Yep!! What's the thing when the guy says lingenberry, like when there's a censor in the lls with Craig?
The song by Pookie at the end about his neighbor beating his wife and his Super getting tight, I think would have a tough time slipping past Standards and Practices today..LOL!!! Especially on a supposed kiddie show...
This is crazy. My first time watching soupy sales. Grew up on pee wee
I got a kick out of frank Sinatra getting a pie in the face. it was an honor to get a pie in the face on soupy's show.
Loved his show
(cont'd) he could find. He then formed a firm called Soupbone to release the best of what was left of his classic Metromedia shows on home video. In between his loss of the original videotapes and discovery of the kines, Soupy shot a series of color remakes of his old series at Golden West Broadcasters in L.A. in the '70s. They're OK, but lack the magic of his work in New York at Metromedia's Channel 5 studios.
I miss Soupy!
I had lunch with him in Beverly Hills once. I sure won't forget it.
Soupy was hilarious!
My mom told me when I was 2 or 3 years old that I would watch The Soupy Sales show and laugh and laugh.
I remember Soupy telling the kids about the school lunch menus.
That radio of his was the best part of the show; you never knew what kind of madness would emerge from it!
"Chicken soup. Give him some chicken soup." [for a dead man!]
"Madame, it wouldn't help.'
"It wouldn't hoit..."
ROFLMAO!!!
Saw him as a much older man in "The Making of '... and God Spoke".. He said, " I stayed at a motel, this morning the maid knocked, asked if she could come in and clean up. She came in, took a shower, and left."
He played an actor who got the part of Moses in a terrible, low budget film. They ran out of money and had to use product placement in their bible movie. He came down from Sinai with a six pack of cola. "He has also given us this wonderful new beverage to drink. It is an elixer from the Lord."
This is classic tv comedy.
I loved soupy sales rip funny man love anne
It's hard to bet Ol "Jet Stream!
A Funny Man!
My brother and I would howl with laughter watching this show as boys. Literally, it was like doing something bad without getting into trouble. This is a kids version Monty Python, Second City and National Lampoon.
Wasn't it ever recorded? His sponsor was Jello, and everytime Soupy ate some it would go down and CRASH in his stomach!
No, the name of the song @ 2:28 is by Martha and the Vandellas, "You've Been in Love Too Long".
Don't remember banana cream.
That's hilarious 😂
According to wellaware1...Ed Chiarini facebook..Soupy was also Oral Roberts the preacher...
well, well learn somethin' new everyday.
Easily one of the funniest men of all time!
Way better than any current kid's programming...
Soupy used lots of popular music,and some jazz numbers during his “Pookie” bits.
Does anywhere here know who the singer of the “home on the range” parody is? Sounds like Herb Duncan?
Does anyone have the clip where soupy asks the kids to go into daddy's wallet and send him those "green pieces of paper?". Thats the one that nearly got him banned from tv.
1:47 Interesting that song was playing. The lead singer was the president of his area's Soupy Sales fan club...LOL