RIP Billy Mays

June 28th, 2009, 4:49 PM EDT


What’s with all the celebrity deaths?

 

Mays, [was] 50, start[ed] selling in the 1980s on the Atlantic City boardwalk. He went on to hawk the WashMatik, the Ultimate Chopper and then, crucially, OxiClean. On the Home Shopping Network and endlessly repeated infomercials and two-minute ads — the call-this-number-and-buy-it-now style of marketing known as “direct response…”

Responses to this post...

  1. MAN, BILLY WAS FRIGGING AWESOME.
    WHO IS GONNA YELL AT ME AT 1 AM TO BUY OXICLEAN NOW?

    (TALKING IN CAPS IN MEMORY OF BILLY)

  2. Oxy-clean no more.

    RIP

  3. Damn I liked that dude.

  4. I had just watched that show pitch men for the first time the other day.
    RIP Billy Mays

  5. I wont miss that loudmouth one itsy bit but at the same time its sad he croaked so young

  6. He’d better get Michael Jackson media coverage. He was awesome.

  7. I’m just hoping somebody backs over the Geico lizard asap…that thing gets on my nerves almost as much as big mouth Billy Mays did

  8. as long as the sham-wow guy doesn’t pick up any of his gigs, I’m fine.

    What’s with all the celebrity deaths? Maybe we have too many celebrities….

  9. now this is a person that did help make things better in life keeping america clean with brilliant ideas r.i.p billy

  10. I always enjoyed his over-the-top product pitch.