Soupy sales told dirty jokes?

Question

I've heard many stories about this. My Dad, my 2 uncles, and atleast 10 of their friends, have confirmed this being true.

Its said that Soupy sales would tell jokes like "I took my girlfriend to a baseball game. I kissed her on the strikes, she kissed me on the balls."

Another:
Soupy and White fang are playing an alphabet game. White fang has to read what letter is on the card. Soupy holds up a card that reads "F". White fang replys "K". Soupy looks at him funny and holds it up again. White fang again says "K". Soupy then says "Why is it then whenever I see F you see K?

Are these really true?

Answer 1

Claims that Sales told dirty jokes on the air
For some unexplained reason, the show became a hit not only with children but also with college students. Urban legend has it that this was because Sales sneaked dirty jokes onto his show for their amusement. Sales vehemently denies that and states in his autobiography:

... About those myths, there were all these other things I was supposed to have said, like, "What begins with 'F' and ends with 'UCK' ... a firetruck," or, "I took my wife to the ball game and kissed her on the strikes and she kissed me on the balls," or, "My wife is a great cook, she makes great pies—I eat her cherry and she eats my banana." And people would swear that I said it! Now, you know that in those days you couldn't say nuthin' (like that on television).
I got so annoyed at these stories that I used to have a standing offer of ten thousand dollars cash to anyone who could prove that I said any of the things that people claim I've said. Look, at every TV station, whether you know it or not, there's a little spool in the master machine in engineering that records everything that's said, everything that goes on. And believe me, if I said half the things I'm supposed to have said, they would be on some blooper record making the rounds.
After many years, I think I finally figured out how these ridiculous stories got started. Kids would come home and they'd tell a dirty joke, you know, grade school humor, and the parents would say, "Where'd you hear that?" And they'd say "The Soupy Sales Show," because I happened to have the biggest show in town. And they'd call another person and say, "Gladys—did you hear the joke that Soupy Sales was telling on his show?" and the word of mouth goes on and on, until people start to believe you actually said things like that

Answer 2

There is no existing videotape or kinescope of any such "dirty joke" incident involving Soupy Sales. Soupy's own autobiography and the urban-legend websites shot down this one ages ago.

No contemporary (1960s) news reports ever mentioned anything about ol' Soupy letting one rip on-the-air (though he nearly got canned when he asked his viewers to send in "little pieces of green paper" to him as a joke--that tape DOES exist).

[The White Fang bit was on a blooper reel which turned up years later-it never got on the air.]

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Soupy sales told dirty jokes?
I've heard many stories about this. My Dad, my 2 uncles, and atleast 10 of their friends, have confirmed this being true.

Its said that Soupy sales would tell jokes like "I took my girlfriend to a baseball game. I kissed her on the strikes, she kissed me on the balls."...

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