“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.”

American comedian and television personality

Soupy Sales, born Milton Supman, was an American comedian, actor, radio and television personality, and jazz enthusiast. He worked across the mid-20th century and became widely known for his children's television presence. He is best remembered for Lunch with Soupy Sales, the comedy series he hosted from 1953 to 1966. The show mixed sketches with a running gag that often ended in a pie to the face, a bit that became his signature. Later, he was a regular panelist on the syndicated revival of What's My Line? from 1968 to 1975, appeared on other game shows, and hosted a radio program on WNBC in New York City during the 1980s.