BillyMays.TV Life’s A Pitch, Then You Buy

Billy Mays was laid to rest on Friday. The media seemed to have done a good job covering the events of the past week

TAMPA, Fla. – Billy Mays, the burly, bearded television pitchman known for his boisterous hawking of products such as Orange Glo and OxiClean, has died. He was 50. Tampa police said Mays was found unresponsive by his wife Sunday morning. A fire rescue crew pronounced him dead at 7:45 a.m. There were no signs of [...]

Sounds like an interesting Pitchmen tonight… Billy and Sully take on a revolutionary new windshield wiper and produce an explosive shoot, featuring something called the ‘Bug Bazooka.’ Then the guys get behind a new way to eat breakfast cereal, “The EZ Crunch Bowl.” The inventor of the EZ Crunch Bowl is Ethan Zohn, from “Survivor: [...]

Billy Mays & Anthony Sullivan will be on The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien tonight at 11:35 on NBC. Be sure to tune in, and come back tomorrow to let us know what you thought!

I’m super-busy today, but I wanted to link to the NY Daily News article on the Famed TV pitchman Billy Mays hits NYC for look-alike contest. Too bad they got the tagline wrong. It’s not “Hi, I’m Billy Mays!” – it’s “Hi, Billy Mays here…”

There’s a new Pitchmen airing this week: A former pitchman and cancer survivor gets a leg up from Billy and Sully, who cut a spot for his handmade product; Billy engages in the deadliest pitch of his career; and then, the pitch pros are invited to lecture at Princeton. Who did a better job pitching [...]

Billy re-vamps the ad for one of his most successful products – the Awesome Auger – whose inventor lost his legs in a harrowing plane crash. Then, the first ever infomercial for affordable health insurance: Billy and his family pitch “iCan“. Original Awesome Auger commercial: iCan ad:

Electronic Retailer recently ran an article titled, “The Men Behind the Pitch,” all about Billy Mays and Anthony Sullivan. The article identifies Billy as the recognizable face behind such popular brands as OxiClean, Kaboom, Hercules Hook and the Mighty products (Mighty Putty and Mighty Mendit). Paynich, the article’s author, talks about the similar beginnings of [...]

This week on Pitchmen… A successful TV Pitchwoman hopes to make herself a household name with her new “Spin Gym” but making her infomercial could damage her friendship with Billy and Sully. Then, “Green Again” turns brown grass green and Billy and Sully jump to back it. The Spinning Green episode of Pitchmen airs May [...]

The World Beard and Moustache Championships are being held this weekend in Anchorage, Alaska. While Billy is known for his impressive beard, he doesn’t have much on these guys. Good luck Beard Team USA!