I’m a little late in the game here (I blogged about it in a timely fashion though) but I DVRed all the eps of Pitchmen on Discovery and I think out of all the recent celebrity deaths, Billy Mays is the saddest. I have the absolute utmost respect for people who work their way up without school (Mays cut his sales teeth on the Atlantic City boardwalk, how hardcore is that?)

It also really makes me sad when someone who’s on the precipice of something even bigger dies. With the success of Pitchmen I think that Billy could have had a super long career, and that one of the best things about Billy was his ability to make fun of himself. I saw these vids on Consumerist, and this one in particular was a real gem.

If you believe in an afterlife, you have to think this dude talked his way past St. Peter…