SOUPY SALES ?

[Mike]

did jack and soupy ever do any shows together? did jack ever get a pie in the face? about soupy, what i remember most about his show was when he used to say: "I DON'T GEEEEEEEEEEEET IT!" does anybody remember that line ? he used to say it a lot as i recall, and the way he said it (in a low voice i think) was so funny!

[helloagain]

I was also a fan of Soupy Sales. Silly, adolescent, low comedy, but I still loved it. I have no memory of Jack and Soupy working together. Their comedy styles were like night and day, and I cannot imagine Mr. Benny taking any pastry in the kisser.

[Yhtapmys]

I was also a fan of Soupy Sales. Silly, adolescent, low comedy, but I still loved it. I have no memory of Jack and Soupy working together. Their comedy styles were like night and day, and I cannot imagine Mr. Benny taking any pastry in the kisser.

What I enjoyed about Soupy is there was no pretention about him and he never "tried" to be funny, even though it's such a temptation with some of his schtick.

I can't picture how he and Jack would mesh, either. I suspect Jack would have worked with vaudevillean friends from his old days if he wanted to do pie-in-face stuff.

Yhtapmys

[Jhammes]

A re-working of the 10/30/60 Jack Benny script (Milton Berle) probably would have worked fine, with Soupy Sales in Berle's role.
I remember Soupy mostly from the 1970's versions of "To Tell The Truth" and "What's My Line?" (the later daily version, not Daly version... that's a joke, son...). Over a decade later, Jack could have returned as mystery "guest".
Those are about the only ways I can picture them onstage together.

[helloagain]

Soupy was a naturally funny guy. I watched his original show back in the 60s and there was a lot of ad libbing and some humor directed at the adult audience. There is a very funny outtake on one of the blooper collections when the crew had a naked stripper knock on his door. Of course the TV audience didn't see what Soupy saw, but his reaction was hilarious. Soupy was a member of the Friar's Club, but I don't know if he knew Jack or not.