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I've lived in L.A., Detroit, Cleveland, Cincinnati but New York is the best.Collection: Soupy
Since I started coming back to Detroit in 1974 on a regular basis, every three months or so to play the area's comedy clubs and rooms, I've sold out over 300 straight performances. I don't know of another entertainer in the country comic, singer, you name it who's ever had that sort of success returning to his adopted hometown to perform.Collection: Soupy
Back in the '60s, when I did the 'Carol Burnett Show,' we did a 'Honeymooners' sketch. You couldn't even be in the same bed. You had to have twin beds and you had to have one foot on the floor.Collection: Soupy
I used to walk six or seven miles a day.Collection: Soupy
Groucho, Bob Hope, Milton Berle, Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis it was incredible. It's a thrill to work with people like that, to say 'I know them. They're my friends.'Collection: Soupy
Bad performers and bad clubs go out of business.Collection: Soupy
The people in my audiences are people who never go to comedy clubs. They've grown up with me. They come out to see me.Collection: Soupy
In other big cities, I can play a series of sold-out one-nighters at various comedy clubs, but Detroit's the only place in the world I regularly play sold-out back-to-back weeks at different clubs!Collection: Soupy
I'm a lucky guy to have such loyal and faithful fans.Collection: Soupy
I do good business in Fort Myers. I'm home safe here.Collection: Soupy
One thing I love about Detroit is that in the wintertime, they have a great device for removing snow. It's called July.Collection: Soupy
It's good to have someplace to work.Collection: Soupy
Everybody had nicknames when I was a kid.Collection: Soupy
People don't go to clubs to think that much. They go to have a good time and relax.Collection: Soupy
Most of my stuff requires no thought at all.Collection: Soupy
I miss TV, but I don't see much creativity there.Collection: Soupy
There's always someone who's ready to turn on you.Collection: Soupy
I'm a great believer in letting a listeners imagination do the work.Collection: Soupy
I've always been outrageous, but never in bad taste.Collection: Soupy
People want to be entertained.Collection: Soupy
Listen, whatever turns you on, that's what you watch. But I don't think that when all is said and done, anybody's going to remember most shows for contributing anything to anybody.Collection: Soupy
When I started out, I was an Innovator of children's programs, and I always felt that my shows were In the best of taste because I never did anything that I wouldn't have wanted my family to see.Collection: Soupy
When I was doing my show in the '60s, the PTA objected because it thought I was saying 'dese, dem and dose' instead of 'these, them and those,' which was ridiculous.Collection: Soupy
I'm an educated man. I'm literate.Collection: Soupy
I have a degree in journalism.Collection: Soupy
I've done quite a few television shows in Toronto, and it's a great city.Collection: Soupy
Our name was Supman, and people always pronounced it Soupman or called me Soupbone. Kids had nicknames in those days like Slim or Tiny or Dutch or Fatso. So when I went to Cincinnati in 1950, they changed my name to Soupy Sales.Collection: Soupy
People who tell me Detroit is dull are wrong.Collection: Soupy
I've had some up and down years, but my fondest memories are of Detroit.Collection: Soupy
What's so frustrating is that there are so many things I want to bring to television, but the networks just don't seem willing.Collection: Soupy
Being funny is a very serious business.Collection: Soupy
I try to get out and do one summer stock show a year.Collection: Soupy
I'm a success because I'm doing what I want to do.Collection: Soupy
I don't want to retire. I just want to live comfortably and go first class.Collection: Soupy
You can't teach a person to be funny unless you teach him how to swipe someone else's material. To be a success he must be naturally funny.Collection: Soupy
Pie throwing is always a very funny incident. For a few seconds it takes away the dignity of authority. It's a thing a person can do without hurting another person to relieve tension.Collection: Soupy
I've watched people I loved and grew up with grow old and die. Wow, it's very, very hard to come to grips with mortality.Collection: Soupy
There is no money in writing.Collection: Soupy
The performer who does the unexpected is the one who catches and holds his audience.Collection: Soupy
When people first started buying TV sets, one of the big reasons was to provide entertainment. To make sure their offspring watch shows they approve of, parents have to become viewers.Collection: Soupy