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I may surprise a few people that I am a very big fan of comedy.  I mean real comedy.  Puns.  Slapstick. Good clean humor.  I still watch the Honeymooners.  I have a collection of 3 Stooges shorts.  I still remember the day I met Sid Ceasar in the lobby of the Drake Hotel back in the 80′s. We talked for several minutes while he bemoaned the “potty mouth, drop your pants” humor that had become so popular.   One of my favorite films of all time is “It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.”  And I have been a big fan of Mel Brooks movies (at least up to “Silent Movie,” after that he kind of went off the deep end, I think).

I just read today where another great “Golden Age” funny man had passed on.  Soupy Sales died at 83.  Even some baby boomers may not remember Soupy.  I watch the old kinescopes on You Tube and I still laugh.  It was when TV was young and they sort of made it up as they went.  Soupy would improv and joke and you could hear the cameraman and director laugh.  It was Soupy and 3 puppets, White Fang, Black Tooth and Pookie.  And I loved them all.

What he was most famous for was the old pie in the face routine, that became a staple of slapstick comedy.  Truth be told, I always wanted to experience that.  I even wrote up a skit for my Sunday School class where I would get a pie in the face, but it never got off the ground. 

There’s one more for the bucket list.

1. Samantha K says:

   October 26, 2009 at 6:19 am

   Hopefully new comedians like Conan O’Brien will be able to take up the mantle after Soupy Sales… may he he rest in pie, i mean, peace!