Hi, I'm Billy Mays

July / August, 2009

Hi, I'm Billy MaysIf you own television, you've already met America's greatest pitchmanilly Mays is pitching me. talk­ing fast and loud so I can't get in a word, telling me about his high school football exploits in McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania and how he's half Ital­ian (true), half )ewish (not true). "If I can't get it wholesale. I steal it," he says. Do-dum! Touching me on my arm to make con­tact, drawing me in, hypnotizing me. Mays tells me how he became a pitchman at the age of 24 o...