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Billy Mays Was Such a Sales Pro, Not Even a Screaming Conan Could Stop Him As we are all regrettably aware, last week was the worst, in terms of celebrity welfare. We lost Ed McMahon, then Farrah Fawcett, then Michael fricking Jackson, then late night infomercial titan Billy Mays suddenly died yesterday. That is so sad! I don't know why, but it's really freaking me out to think that Billy Mays will never shout me to sleep at 4 AM on a Sunday morning with a new infomercial ever again. What am I going to unwisely buy in the middle of the night now? Pizza? I can't secure a bookshelf to the wall without screws or brackets with a pizza like I can with all that Mighty Putty I bought that one time. Can't do it with Proactive either. See what I mean? Billy Mays was an important part of my life!

Anyway, in case you were also feeling inexplicably awful about Billy Mays' passing, this clip of him being really fun on The Tonight Show last week has been making the rounds today, and it's pretty great. Conan is on fire in it, just completely ripping on his products and declaring them useless and unnecessary (in a really funny, non-asshole way), and Billy just kind of laughs it off and forges forward, managing to stay on-message the entire time. It's pretty impressive. As is his defense of one of his products, which one might need in case one has any "drunken drinkin' friends!" Oh, Billy Mays. You knew me so well.

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