A Litte Comic Relief

While I can’t say I frequently view any particular blog, I will admit to occasionally checking out the notorious Perezhilton site. With both the Emmy and MTV awards having recently past, I found myself on Perezhilton wanting to see the winners, the fashion, and of course, the gossip that his page is known for. I chose to compare the Perezhilton site to a very similar blog, Best Week Ever, which pokes fun at people in pop culture. Like the Perezhilton website, Best Week Ever has a television show on Vh1 that accompanies the blog.

Perezhilton: The author of this blog is actually a man named Mario Lavandeira, but he adopted the name Perezhilton after Paris Hilton, which he uses for both his blog and new VH1 show. He considers himself to be a gossip columnist and has this past year risen to himself become a celebrity through his scrutiny of Hollywood. On his website he boasts that he receives 4 million hits a day.

Best Week Ever: This blog is written by a team of bloggers, many of who are also tv personalities and comedians, all who also appear on the show. The blog is a spin off of the Vh1 show and also pokes fun at those in the media spotlight.

The two websites share many similar blog posts. Both sites often comically compare the photos of some celebrity to another character, usually quite hideous, but equally hilarious.

The Britney Spears/Ms Piggy pic appeared on Perezhilton a few weeks ago, and the Fred Thompson/Vigo the Cruel (Ghostbusters II villain) pic was on Best Week Ever yesterday.

Both sites have in common that they frequently link to video, on Perezhilton, there are often links to youtube videos that relate to the particular person or event he's commenting on.

Best week ever does the same, and has video clips from the Best Week Ever show included on the site. Both sites have the option to comment on any particular post, and often link to other stories on related content. Despite the Best Week Ever blog being located off of the Vh1 website, the Perezhilton site has by far more user comments.

However, because the Best Week Ever blog is off of the Vh1 website, it does provide more mulitimedia options. The blog has links that allows users to take quizzes on pop culture, search for posts about a specific celebrity, and has an option that allows you to recieve celebrity news via your mobile, and a Best Week Ever radio show that user can listen to through the site.

The Perezhilton site does provide a few of those multimedia options, such as a search bar, linking, and video, but as far as the mobile and radio options go, the Best Week Ever site is more multimedia inclusive.

Bottom line, both blogs are satirical in nature and simply poke fun at those in the spot light and offer a little comic relief to already not so serious news. I feel both are about equal as far as quality goes and the deciding factor as to which a reader prefers, will probably just be which sites humor they most relate to. Funny drawings or witty commentary..

Thought this blog post on Best Week Ever was pretty funny.