Billy Mays is dead.

[devo]

http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/sns-ap-us-obit-billy-mays,0,7010511.story

What an odd week this has been.

 

[SFH]

Billy Mays - Dead

.

 

[Mattdotcom]

Billy Mays [was] here!

 

[Tony149]

WTF? I thought this was another Jeff Goldblum deal but this is actually true. Pretty unbelievable. I always got a kick out of Mays' commercials because of his energy.

 

[mellow]

What an odd week this has been.

It's like candy for amateur comedians.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

Busy week for the Serial Pillist. I think he was working on behalf of the Shamwow guy on this case.

 

[Mattdotcom]

After Vince from Shamwow's whole prostitute thing and now this, I'm beginning to imagine the world of pitchmen being exposed as that of a pro wrestling level. I'm talking getting hookers to shit on glass tables AND having the products on hand to clean it up. I'm expecting a tell-all book by year's end.

 

[mellow]

* paging Matthew Randazzo XLVIII *

 

[foleyfanforever88]

Wow. What the fuck. I'm seriously more affected by this than MJ's death.

 

[Dandy]

The room is spinning and less clean.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

After Vince from Shamwow's whole prostitute thing and now this, I'm beginning to imagine the world of pitchmen being exposed as that of a pro wrestling level. I'm talking getting hookers to shit on glass tables AND having the products on hand to clean it up. I'm expecting a tell-all book by year's end.

Infomercial of Death

The guy from the Magic Bullet infomercial has always struck me as disconcerting for no real good reason. I half-expect him to ask the hungover guy if he's ever killed a man every time I watch that one (which is more often than you'd think!)

 

[Mattdotcom]

After Vince from Shamwow's whole prostitute thing and now this, I'm beginning to imagine the world of pitchmen being exposed as that of a pro wrestling level. I'm talking getting hookers to shit on glass tables AND having the products on hand to clean it up. I'm expecting a tell-all book by year's end.

Infomercial of Death

Thanks, it was on the tip of my tongue.

 

[Haws Bah Gawd]

Sign me up too for being more saddened by the passing of the most energetic pitchman ever than Michael Jackson.

 

[Big Beard Booty Daddy]

Add me to the group more upset with this than MJ. I loved PITCHMEN. This one just sucks.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

I've heard a good half dozen people say they're more upset by Mays than MJ in the hour since I've heard he's expired. Silly Generation Y!

I wonder how the infomercial channel is going to pay tribute.

 

[foleyfanforever88]

Billy Mays: More talent than Michael Jackson, more sex appeal than Farrah Fawcett, and a more recognizable voice than Ed McMahon.

 

[Vigo]

Billy Mays: More talent than Michael Jackson, more sex appeal than Farrah Fawcett, and a more recognizable voice than Ed McMahon.

Sums it up perfectly.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

Billy Mays: more sex appeal than Farrah Fawcett

Who would've tunk foleyfanforever88 was a bear chaser?


Hey did anybody else know that the Shamwow guy's real name was Offer Shalomi. I guess anti-semitism is still rampant in the world of pitchmen. More fodder for Informercial of Death I guess.

 

[Big Green]

Week of June 22-28 Death List
1. Ed McMahon
2. Farrah Fawcett
3. Michael Jackson
4. Billy Mays

What the fuck is going on?

 

[Jebus]

Man, he was just on Conan this past week...no signs of "this man will be dead within days".
Total shocker.

 

[Gary]

There goes "Pitchmen" Also

 

[KingPK]

 

[Smues]

As far as loud TV commercial guys go I'd have much preferred that Matt Lesko died. Or the shamwow guy. Billy...I hated at first, and I never really liked, but I guess I became tolerant of him over time. So RIP I guess.

 

[mellow]

As far as loud TV commercial guys go I'd have much preferred that Matt Lesko died.

Take it back.

 

[Smues]

Never

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

Smues is right- he's one of 100 people who are screwing up America!

Am I crazy or did he make a cameo during an episode of Nitro or a WCW PPV? Am I just thinking of the fact that his commercials aired all the time on TBS and TNT? Was Lesko nWo 4 life?

 

[Smues]

I don't remember a cameo, but I remember his ads being on all the time during the commercial breaks. At the end and he starts walking into that water near the Washington Monument or wherever it was he was at I always hoped there would be a steep drop and he'd fall in and die. No such luck.

 

[Spaceman Spiff]

Apparently, he got hit on the head during a rough landing in an airplane the day before. Chances are that'll be the contributing factor.

 

[Mazto]

Was Lesko nWo 4 life?

My MSN contact and his twin sister thought so.

 

[Mattdotcom]

They came first for the Publishers Clearing House, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a publisher;
And then they came for Charlie's angels, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a angel;
And then they came for the pedophiles, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a pedophile;
And then... they came for Mays... And by that time there was no one left to speak up