SOUPY SALES GOT KIDS TO LOOK UP TO HIM
Reprint from 2006
In the first month of DD blog's existence, I published an old interview I did with Soupy Sales in 1991.
Soupy Sales, the unforgettable character of comedy, the man who was drummed off the air by the FCC when an anonymous harridan complained to the agency after a New Year's Eve broadcast in which Sales asked the children to sneak into their parents' bedrooms, collect all the green paper with people's faces on it and send it to him.
"That was broadcast at 7 in the evening. How many parents do you know that are already asleep then? It was just the case of a humorless station-owner getting worried," said Sales.
"Hey, if I'd gotten any money from that, I wouldn't be talking to you. I'd own the paper!"
And what about the time, Soupy, that my editor said he saw you do the routine where you wrote the letter "F" on the chalkboard [for White Fang who saw only "K" and you said "When I see 'F' you see...]
"You tell him he never saw that," Soupy interrupts. "You know, I never said that when I went to the ballgame I kiss my wife on the strikes and she kisses me on the [balls]."
"We weren't allowed to do that. You can't be that dumb and be in this business."
What about Gilbert Gottfried's "Pee Wee and masturbation rap" at the Emmy's?
"That was in bad taste. There is a difference between being in the club where people are smoking and drinking and a primetime television audience. But, you know the way the Emmy's are, everybody forgets in two weeks."
"But with PeeWee, everybody thinks you can get away with anything in the 90's. The fact is, people do not like their children following perverts. It was stupid.
"I grew up in the south and it is not so liberal there. People say, 'Didn't the cops have anything better to do?' Well, that's the way it is.
"By the way, you know why you don't see Pee Wee around much anymore?"
Duh, I dunno. Why?
"He's got his hands full."
"How can parents get their kids to look up to them?" Sales finally asked.
Gee, Soupy, I don't know.
"Stand in front of the television set."
Reprint from 2006
In the first month of DD blog's existence, I published an old interview I did with Soupy Sales in 1991.
Soupy Sales, the unforgettable character of comedy, the man who was drummed off the air by the FCC when an anonymous harridan complained to the agency after a New Year's Eve broadcast in which Sales asked the children to sneak into their parents' bedrooms, collect all the green paper with people's faces on it and send it to him.
"That was broadcast at 7 in the evening. How many parents do you know that are already asleep then? It was just the case of a humorless station-owner getting worried," said Sales.
"Hey, if I'd gotten any money from that, I wouldn't be talking to you. I'd own the paper!"
And what about the time, Soupy, that my editor said he saw you do the routine where you wrote the letter "F" on the chalkboard [for White Fang who saw only "K" and you said "When I see 'F' you see...]
"You tell him he never saw that," Soupy interrupts. "You know, I never said that when I went to the ballgame I kiss my wife on the strikes and she kisses me on the [balls]."
"We weren't allowed to do that. You can't be that dumb and be in this business."
What about Gilbert Gottfried's "Pee Wee and masturbation rap" at the Emmy's?
"That was in bad taste. There is a difference between being in the club where people are smoking and drinking and a primetime television audience. But, you know the way the Emmy's are, everybody forgets in two weeks."
"But with PeeWee, everybody thinks you can get away with anything in the 90's. The fact is, people do not like their children following perverts. It was stupid.
"I grew up in the south and it is not so liberal there. People say, 'Didn't the cops have anything better to do?' Well, that's the way it is.
"By the way, you know why you don't see Pee Wee around much anymore?"
Duh, I dunno. Why?
"He's got his hands full."
"How can parents get their kids to look up to them?" Sales finally asked.
Gee, Soupy, I don't know.
"Stand in front of the television set."
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