Billy Mays Dead At 50
 

'Infomercial King' Billy Mays Found Dead in Home - Celebrity Gossip | Entertainment News | Arts And Entertainment - FOXNews.com

Hated his commercials, but Pitchmen was a good show. He's hangin' with MJ now. RIP.

yah I heard... liked his show... thats a bummer....

so will his gravestone say "BILLY MAYS HERE!"

If he orders right now, he'll get three gravestones for one low price of $19.99.

Great, another day with no news coverage on TV.

Just saw this on CBC, I just watched him on Conan earlier this week, he was a funny bastard, RIP Mr. Mays.

how'd he die? someone stab him?

"...someone stab him?"

Funny. I almost chose him for that thread. Glad I didn't, now nobody can blame me. But if something happens to Dick Cheney, I was just kidding. Well, kinda.

Looks like Mays landed in Tampa yesterday, nose-gear tires on the plane popped, luggage hit him on the noggin. That's not an official cause of death yet, but would make sense as head injuries are no joke.

Oh, by the way, Michael Jackson is STILL dead but nobody knows why. Fear not though, it's all over TV all day long. Ugh. Why can't they drop it until they actually know something?

motherfucker you gotta be kidding me. what the fuck is going on?

i suspect vince the shamwow guy had something to do with it.

These things always come in threes: MJ, Farrah and now Billy Mays.

Gary Coleman can rest easy, it's not his time yet.

hightheif, you need to check that.....Ed Mc and Farrah went with David Carradine, now we have MJ and Billy...there will be one more

Oh, please let it be Rush or Cheney! Please, please, please.

But watch the networks struggle to scoop each other when he gets better.

Well, he did play a zombie in the Thriller video. (BTW, I was 13 when that video dropped, and I was enthralled. Watched it on a 13 inch color TV. LOL)

Wow, this is just surprising. I really liked him in Pitchmen. I feel so awful for his family. He has young children who will miss their daddy. RIP Billy.

That's not Billy Mays! Don't you dare kill Al the Tool Man Sidekick!

And by the way, just because I wanted to stab him, doesn't mean I did.

Concur. . . . crap, he was a genuinely interesting character. Man. :(

apparently, he was fine gitting of the 'plane, just a bump on his head...

died after he got home...

concussions are wierd...

i remember always hearing his voice on commercials. that sucks i won't anymore.

I have no idea who this guy was...

Demerol overdose was the first thing leaked from the investigation, and it makes perfect sense.

i still say vince slap chopped him unconscious, then suffocated him with a shamwow

RIP, Mr. Mays. May your daughter find solace from your many infomercials and tv show.

what? He was selling the World Death Clock too?????

he sold EVERYTHING (except the slap chop and shamwow)

Sorry for his family. Hit his head on a US Airways flight? Wonder if that had something to do with it?

Didn't something like this happen to Natasha Richardson not long ago. Think they call it the talk and die syndrome or walking talking dead. I guess I don't know for sure that what happened here, needed more coffee.

On another thought... couldn't have been the Sham-Wow! guy?

Ok that's just mean I need coffee.

I have an affinity and uncanny ability to utter the final lasting post as a thread either dies or becomes forgotten, so I'll offer this random soundbite with no expectations for even one post to come after it.


Celebrity Death Clock Conspiracy

The 911 phone call made when Billy Mays was found dead, evolving into a discussion of our own mortality, and the events of 2012.

This just in: All DEAD people are STILL DEAD!!!!! Get over it. Do the best that you can for yourself and loved-ones NOT to join them soon. Who friggin' cares? The dude annoyed me for years. Yeah, Pitchmen was great. But will I really miss Billy "I'M SCREAMING BECAUSE I KNOW IT ANNOYS YOU" Mays? Nope. MJ? I'm 97% sure that he was a pedophile. Best of luck in HELL for him.

Please, grow up folks.

I'm watching Pitchman: A Tribute to Billy Mays on The Discovery Channel right now.

I quite liked Billy Mays ever since Pitchmen started airing, so I care.

I hope ol' Sully finds a new partner and continues with the show.

Dead is Dead. Life is Death. We all will be Dead. Rejoice in it.

He did sell the quickchop and Zorbies, which were the exact same products. Apparently Vince kinda took them out from under him.

I can honestly say I didn't see this coming

Autopsy: Cocaine a factor in Billy Mays' death - CNN.com

Somebody come up with a Billy Mays / cocaine joke. Stat.

Lies! Liiiieeeessss!!!!

EDIT: Hey! It got rid of my caps!

Wow, the guy from Home Improvement died? I watched that show once or twice. It was okay except for the fact that it seemed to pander to a particular neanderthal audience that didn't include me.

That's a shame. If there's a Home Improvement reunion that that one helper guy won't be there. Was their going to be a reunion? Is that why he killed himself?

Heh, they do kinda look similar, but the guy from Home Improvement was someone else. Billy Mays was the pitchman for OxyClean and other infomercial products.

thats ok...its the same audience that relies upon you and your kinds' ignorance of how to, say, change a light bulb or perform other simple household tasks beyond your comprehension that funds their houses and puts their kids through college.

Did anyone check the ingredients in OxyClean? - Maybe that's what he was snorting.