David Spade emerged from his hot tub after a brief but relaxing 9-hour soak. He put on his $10,000 Billy Mays costume, complete with a button-down blue shirt owned by Billy Mays himself, exhumed from his grave, cleaned, pressed, and... CONTINUE READING YOU CAN MAKE IT UP: DAVID SPADE DRESSES UP AS BILLY MAYS FOR HALLOWEEN»
Posted on October 29, 2009 in
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Tags: Billy Mays | David Spade | Girl Talk | Halloween
OK, I've got a last minute costume idea, you guys, but it's only going to work if we ALL do it (and by all I mean everyone in the entire world. Even Europe.) From People: The son of legendary pitchman... CONTINUE READING LET'S ALL DRESS UP LIKE BILLY MAYS FOR HALLOWEEN»
Posted on October 26, 2009 in
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Tags: Billy Mays | Halloween
Media Enterprises, the marketing company behind Mighty Brand products (both of which are currently in the running for 2009's Most Generic Business Name Award), the line of phone order infomercial junk that made Billy Mays a household name, has decided... CONTINUE READING YOU COULD BE THE NEXT BILLY MAYS, BUT YOU PROBABLY WON'T»
Posted on August 6, 2009 in
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Tags: Billy Mays
Online video is such a new medium that we don't yet have an aesthetic scale for measuring the worth of one video over another, yet. Which is mostly good -- the web is democratic, and different things appeal to different... CONTINUE READING SOMEBODY WORKED REALLY HARD ON THIS, UNFORTUNATELY»
Posted on April 30, 2009 in ,
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Tags: Billy Mays
I haven't seen Death To Smoochy, and I know it's supposed to be bad, but if Death To Smoochy, a movie about feuding children's show mascots, can be greenlighted, then the MASSIVE FEUD brewing between classic infomercial guy Billy Mays... CONTINUE READING THE BILLY MAYS VERSUS VINCE OFFER FEUD IS GOING TO TEAR THE INFOMERCIAL COMMUNITY APART»
Posted on February 11, 2009 in ,
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Tags: Animal Collective | Billy Mays | Infomercials | Shamwow | Vince Offer
The same dude who did that funny Mighty Putty infomercial overdub put up a new one yesterday. I know that realistically there should be a time when these will stop making me laugh all the way through, but that time... CONTINUE READING THERE'S A NEW BILLY MAYS INFOMERCIAL DUB, AND THE JOKE IS STILL NOT OLD»
Posted on February 6, 2009 in ,
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Tags: Billy Mays | Infomercials
This is from December 2008, which is the Age Of Enlightenment in internet years, but hang on Voltaire, 'cause the redub of Billy Mays's annoying Mighty Putty infomercial is going to fix everything in your life. Literally: I know this... CONTINUE READING FUCKIN' OPTIMUS PRIME CAN'T TEAR THIS SHIT OFF!»
Posted on January 29, 2009 in ,
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Tags: Billy Mays | Mighty Putty