Today is the 83rd birthday of Soupy Sales. I wrote all sorts of gushy things about Soupy in this article (most of which he reprinted, with my permission, in his autobiography) so I needn't repeat them here. I'll just wish that his day — hell, the rest of his life — has the kind of happiness that he brought to so many of us with his TV appearances.
And I'll favor you with this video of Soupy at a comedy club appearance a few years back, telling the infamous story of how he was suspended from his New York show for telling kids to send in money…