Soupy Sales

Comedian

1926-01-08

Quotes by Soupy Sales

• 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!

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• 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.

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• It doesn't seem like it, but I would never do anything that wasn't prepared or planned. You have to be the most disciplined performer to make it seem undisciplined.

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• Our shows were not actually written, but they were precisely thought out. But the greatest thing about the show, and I think the reason for its success, was that it seemed undisciplined.

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• Show me a judge that knits and I'll show you a gavel that'll unravel.

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• If someone throws a pie at you, it's gotta stick. It's gotta be gooey. So you use a whipped cream pie. And if it's shaving cream, you can wipe it off. I can clean up in 14 seconds.

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