Jun 29 2009Billy Mays Has Left The Infomercial Set

Billy Mays, a man best known for kicking Vince "Shamwow" Shlomi's ass in a no-holds-barred cagefighting match, died over the weekend following a freak head injury heart blockage. He was 50.
Police said Mays told his wife he didn't feel well when he went to bed Saturday night. Earlier in the day, he said he was hit on the head when his airliner had a rough landing at Tampa Bay's airport.
But the airline said no passengers reported any serious injuries, and Mays himself cheerfully recounted the landing for a local TV station.
Wow, that's pretty scary. Life is short folks, fight stains while you still can.
R.I.P. Billy.
Autopsy planned for TV pitchman Billy Mays [yahoo]
Thanks to everyone who sent this in. Stay clean guys, stay OxiClean.
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Reader Comments
1. STOMPY - June 29, 2009 9:55 AM
Probably realized that his business was over now that he isn't cleaning MJ's stains off little kids underwear...
2. Ollie Williams - June 29, 2009 10:08 AM
@2
No, no it wasn't.
3. Maru - June 29, 2009 10:08 AM
Aw. No more commercials with the bearded guy who seemed like he was always yelling at you to buy his products. D:
RIP Billy Mays. You were an awesome commercial dude.
4. Captain - June 29, 2009 10:10 AM
@3
you are next.... R.I.P
5. /Eyeroll - June 29, 2009 10:11 AM
Who cares... he sold half assed products, never changed his friggin clothes and was a narcissistic jackass. Good riddance imo... infomercials fail.
6. Richard McBeef - June 29, 2009 10:14 AM
He was huffing orange glo.
7. succo - June 29, 2009 10:17 AM
Celebrity Deaths are supposed to come in 3s.
Just like Billy Mays to give you 1 extra if you act now!
8. Timbo - June 29, 2009 10:17 AM
I'm pouring out a 40 oz of Oxiclean in his honor...
This is for my homey...
9. Ollie Williams - June 29, 2009 10:21 AM
@5
I'm a cartoon character, I can't die.
10. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - June 29, 2009 10:28 AM
@10
How's the weather?
11. pez dispenser - June 29, 2009 10:29 AM
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12. Barney Stinson - June 29, 2009 10:33 AM
No good time to be 50.
13. Watch-303 - June 29, 2009 10:35 AM
@1 youre an asshole, show some respect. Billy will be missed.
14. /Eyeroll - June 29, 2009 10:37 AM
@14 - LOL... sounds like sombody made poor investment choices...
15. Jerry - June 29, 2009 10:39 AM
So, is the trifecta complete?
http://bootelicious.mybrute.com
16. shoop - June 29, 2009 10:41 AM
Hey everyone, i got a great idea. Let's pretend like we know these people we see on TV and that they actually make one tiny freakin difference in our lives and say empty hearted that they will be missed, cause in reality they freakin won't to us. He died, that sucks for him and his freinds/family, anyone else should just go join the cheerleading squad cause your BSing yourself into arrogance!
17. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - June 29, 2009 10:42 AM
@16
Nope. Need two more.
18. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - June 29, 2009 10:50 AM
@naas
http://www.frigginrandom.com/images/internet-commentor-magazine/
hehehe
19. tommy - June 29, 2009 10:50 AM
It's not like I enjoyed him screaming at me during commercial breaks or being intimidated in to buying products, but now things are just so. . . silent.
Also, I'm shocked this isn't a coke related death. I figured OD for sure.
20. Fitz - June 29, 2009 10:56 AM
Tim is awesome for making this comic strip:
http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/comic.php?d=20090629
21. DCLeisurist - June 29, 2009 11:04 AM
I loved him, but never felt like we really communicated....
22. whoa - June 29, 2009 11:07 AM
Seems like the same thing that killed Natascha Richardson
23. $.02 and a pocket full of FAH-Q - June 29, 2009 11:09 AM
Bummer, I'll miss being yelled at to buy silly stuff at 2am!
RIP Billy Mays!
17 - Bitter much?
24. STOMPY - June 29, 2009 11:11 AM
@14
Sorry, can't show respect from someone who has had no impact on my life whatsoever.
25. naas - June 29, 2009 11:19 AM
@all - good monday to you!
@19 my size 12 is going straight up your ass when I'm over there if that's real.... For a second I thought that was your mug until I read the 'first' garbage. Yes.... wait, nope - you know I love you but now you're going to be maimed and killed
Billy Mays - WTF is happening to public people these days? Crappy fate my television friend, who's going to sell oxy clean & dd7 now? I heard somewhere before he didn't even like oranges
26. Ollie Williams - June 29, 2009 11:22 AM
@11
IT'S RAININ' SIDEWAYS!
27. Ryan Ward - June 29, 2009 11:28 AM
WHAT THE HELL??? THREE CELEBRITIES IN THREE DAYS??? Farrah Fawcet, Michael Jackson, AND Billy Mays?? WHAT IS THIS? THE YEAR OR RECKONING???
28. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - June 29, 2009 11:32 AM
@26
I almost wish that zine was real. Almost.
29. naas - June 29, 2009 11:35 AM
If this guy kicks it anytime soon I am going to believe there's a pattern & someone is behind knocking off infomercialists
http://www.rivalfish.com/rivalroom/uploaded_images/P18304B-721905.JPG
30. naas - June 29, 2009 11:38 AM
GFS -> http://lordskout.com/art/stickmad.jpg
31. urhalo69 - June 29, 2009 11:39 AM
@25 - If Billy Mays had no impact whatsoever on your life you wouldn't have taken the time time out of your day to click the links and write your original ignorant comment. It must be sad to live such a lonely, sheltered, pathetic life that you have to write such comments just so you can have some sort of communication with the outside world. How about next time some one dies that supposedly has no impact on your life, you just skip the commenting all together? R.I.P. Billy.
32. Fitz - June 29, 2009 11:44 AM
GET ON THE BALL!!!
33. jaja - June 29, 2009 11:52 AM
@1 lol
@17 agreed
@19 LOL
@naas I'm size 13 {evil laugh}
@32 GTFO NO-ONE CARES SRSLY.
@myself what just happened?
34. STOMPY - June 29, 2009 11:53 AM
ah yes, I forgot one of the golden rules of posting online, there is an infinite sea of saps out their, to try and argue with each one is pointless...
35. Parkaboy - June 29, 2009 12:00 PM
wow, people really getting upset because they think this comment;
Probably realized that his business was over now that he isn't cleaning MJ's stains off little kids underwear...
somehow is way over the top... I've heard a lot worse on this site... People need to grow up.
36. Daisy - June 29, 2009 12:01 PM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadiow's are all wrong.
This is exactly like that scene in the movie Never BAck Down where MAx mistook Billy MAys for Willy Mays and ended up buying oxy clean to resell at a baseball memorabilia show.
37. Ant - June 29, 2009 12:03 PM
*sigh* Not even OxiClean can wash away the pain that I feel.
38. naas - June 29, 2009 12:04 PM
heheheh
39. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - June 29, 2009 12:07 PM
@31
That poor girl. Was she tasty?
40. naas - June 29, 2009 12:21 PM
That's YOU -on the right, mr. shumways'notgoingtolivemuchlonger. I took your beard & yanked it 1/2 way around your head while sreaming 'NOW WAS IT FUNNY!?' hehehe
41. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - June 29, 2009 12:24 PM
@41
You're going to need a bigger stick...figure.
42. /Eyeroll - June 29, 2009 12:26 PM
@32 - Wow, sounds like you're reaching from personal emotions. Unless you're related to Billy "Fail" Mays by blood then that post was... well... friggin hillarious. Must really like your infomercials lol.
43. Melly-the-epic-brawler-of-epicness - June 29, 2009 12:27 PM
Is it me or did someone who really hates celebrities get their hands on a Death Note?
44. naas - June 29, 2009 12:29 PM
I know man, I couldn't find one actually. That was the best I could do in the 4 something minutes I spent looking. I didn't even notice the pony tail until you said something heh
45. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - June 29, 2009 12:33 PM
@45
That's no pony tail! It's my nose hair!
46. STOMPY - June 29, 2009 12:38 PM
Thats not GFS's ponytail. It's Golaiths nose hair.
47. Ickorus - June 29, 2009 12:45 PM
Looks like Vince wins the pitch off by default.
You will be missed!
@ 55 Haha, hilarious.
48. che-che - June 29, 2009 12:46 PM
how good is oxi-clean at mummification. billy mays will live forever in everyones hearts.
@17, seems to me that you a little jealous, that more people will care about this guys death than yours. OXI-CLEAN!!!
49. naas - June 29, 2009 1:05 PM
@46, 47 - you uhhh, wanna do 'repeat'?
http://www.realvideosite.com/Trailers-and-Movie-Clips_2666_Repeat-game
50. hi! - June 29, 2009 1:07 PM
http://www.whycindywhy.com/?id=kv11gl2nib5sd89v2lx2weiqh7qt...also, i saw a rerun of an oxiclean commercial today and cried like a girl....R.I.P billy...
51. Frank Glover - June 29, 2009 1:37 PM
But wait! There's (no) more!
52. Lord of the horse beaters - June 29, 2009 1:44 PM
Rest in peace. May the Mays be with you.
53. Dirk Diggler - June 29, 2009 1:47 PM
Geekology writer, may be a good idea to not state the cause of death before the autopsy.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/TV/06/29/mays.death/index.html
54. $.02 and a pocket full of FAH-Q - June 29, 2009 2:35 PM
54 - He never said the head injury killed him. He said Billy died FOLLOWING a freak head injury - not BECAUSE of...
It's odd that Dirk Diggler would be anal retentive, I would picture you more of a "free spirit"... Keep On Truckin...
55. $.02 and a pocket full of FAH-Q - June 29, 2009 2:39 PM
@54 again - Also, you're a giant dick. =)
56. STOMPY - June 29, 2009 2:45 PM
@FAH-Q
do you always have to follow the words 'gaint dick' with a smilie face,
figured :-o would be more suitable.
57. Anon - June 29, 2009 2:46 PM
@4: Just wait a couple months...
58. Lizzie - June 29, 2009 3:12 PM
@ 8 lol
and, they don't know what the cause of death is yet... it MAY have been a head injury, or it may have been a freak coincidence, and he has cardiac arrest in his sleep.
they don't know
59. Jeff - June 29, 2009 4:24 PM
RIP Billy
60. doro - June 29, 2009 6:39 PM
@8
David Carradine, Ed Mcmahon, Farrah Fawcett, Michael Jackson, THEN Billy Mays
There's still one more day left in June....
61. Dirk Diggler - June 29, 2009 7:47 PM
#55 He also died following filming a commercial. He died following eating his wife's food. He died following shitting. He died following sex. He died following everything he ever did, but they didn't make the Geekology list of things that he died after. By putting one thing in there, which turned out to have nothing to do with it, GW was implying that the freak head injury is what killed him. If you fail to see this then you are a moron.
And I may be a giant dick, but I also have a giant dick, that justifies it.
62. Elle - June 29, 2009 8:01 PM
@1
the guy who sued mj for child molestation is now saying he lied because his dad told him to to get the law suit money
http://trashselector.com/evan-chandler-i-lied-for-my-father-im-sorry-michael/
63. Steve - June 29, 2009 8:33 PM
Here's the 911 Call http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MfKpX5Em8Q
64. STOMPY - June 29, 2009 8:34 PM
@63
I wouldn't doubt it. Imagine his legacy if he didn't get all weird though...
@62
Ya I started reading your post but than I realize you are a moron. Damn, looks like I've already wasted enough time on you...
65. Annie - June 29, 2009 8:44 PM
I swear to God if Vince Schlomi dies next, I'm going TO BE PISSED.
I bet it would be from hooker-AIDS.
WHY DIDN'T YOU PUNCH THAT ONE IN THE MOUTH?!!?
66. Dirk Diggler - June 29, 2009 8:54 PM
65 Stompy, If you don't have the ability to concentrate for a whole paragraph then logic is lost on you anyways. I wish you the best working at McDonalds.
67. STOMPY - June 29, 2009 8:58 PM
@66
He can't die, the man slaps all his troubles away!
68. yourmotherslover - June 29, 2009 9:54 PM
What are MJ, Farah Facet, Ed McMahon, and Billy Mays getting for christmas????
Patrick Swayze....
That's 4.. one more and we'll have a killtackular on our hands..
69. Johnson - June 30, 2009 3:08 AM
RIP Billy Mays. Your infomercial were the best. Oxi Clean was awesome.
70. Jaded Icon - June 30, 2009 6:40 AM
!?!?!?!??!?!
You broke my heart Billy Mays.
71. $.02 and a pocket full of FAH-Q - July 1, 2009 2:36 PM
57 - The smile first, then the :-O
62 - I understood it perfectly. I was pointing out that instead of reading an ambiguous sentence and giving GW the benefit of the doubt, you chose to be an asshole about it.
PS- Just because you have one, doesn't mean you have to act like one.
72. Dirk Diggler - July 1, 2009 3:22 PM
#73 The thing is though, unless you are an idiot it isn't ambiguous. GW was clearlylinking the bump to the head with Mays' death. While I don't expect the same kind of journalistic integrity from GW that I do from most news outlets, a little should be expected. And while it may have been a little bit of an asshole thing to do, Your reply post upped the ante by a factor of 10. Just because you can be a bigger dick than me, doesn't mean you have to.