As Roy Edroso pointed out the other day, most children’s programming in the New York area during the early and mid-1960s was dreck. There were exceptions: Chuck McCann, who read the funnies to us on ...

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 the 1960s in ...

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As promised on Wednesday's column, today I'm sharing a tribute to comedian Soupy Sales, who died last week at age 83, with some of the best moments from my October 1997 interview with Soupy when he ...