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« on: March 11, 2010, 04:26:10 PM »

http://www.seattlepi.com/tvguide/416493_tvgif11.html?tsp=1
Betty White Hosting Saturday Night Live on May 8
Thursday, March 11, 2010
By JOYCE ENG
TV GUIDE

Mark your calendars and set your TiVos: Betty White will host Saturday Night Live on May 8 — and she's bringing some other funny ladies with her.

Joining the Golden Girl for the special Mother's Day episode are six former SNL players, most of whom are moms: Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Molly Shannon, Maya Rudolph, Ana Gasteyer and Rachel Dratch.

Betty White will appear on Saturday Night Live

At 88, White will be the show's oldest host ever, and the gig will also mark her first time as host — a debut that was a long time coming. SNL executive producer Lorne Michaels tells USA Today that he has "always wanted" the beloved comedienne to host, but White turned him down three times.

"It's so New York, and I'm not New York at all," she says. "But my agent said he'd divorce me if I didn't do it, and I love my agent."

The Facebook campaign imploring SNL to book White "took on a groundswell" following her Super Bowl Snickers commercial, Michael says, and "validated that, 'Oh, that'd be fun.'"

Betty White looks back and ahead on her golden career

"It isn't something we would have said no to," he says. "It was the outpouring of affection from fans, and we feel the same way."

While White has no children of her own — except for Pontiac, her golden retriever — Michaels says she's the perfect Mother's Day host because "she's the mother of us all in comedy, so it will be a celebration of Betty White."
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« Reply #1 on: May 07, 2010, 10:39:54 PM »

http://www.sheknows.com/articles/815052/betty-white-hosts-snl-1
Betty White hosts SNL
Gang signs & sketches with Jay-Z

 Thanks to the massive Facebook fan group, Betty White will take the Saturday Night Live stage for the first time ever this weekend. Former cast members Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Molly Shannon, Maya Rudolph, Ana Gasteyer and Rachel Dratch return for the Mother's Day episode and musical guest Jay-Z, an icon of another generation, will get in some laughs, too.

"There are a lot of sketches coming up," White previewed of this weekend's show. "It seems like about 350. I'm sure it's not that many but it feels like it. And I will be doing a couple of sketches with Jay-Z, so that should be fun."
n the promos, the 88-year-old funny-woman flashes gang signs and pumps the air like a pro, proving she's ready to do anything for laughs. Well, almost anything.

"I won't do any dope jokes," she said. "I don't like dope jokes. I don't think dope is a joke."

Fans hadn't seen much of White for a spell, but after she landed on Boston Legal five years ago, she went on to make a serious comeback.

Last year, she nabbed the SAG Life Achievement Award and appeared in The Proposal, alongside Oscar winner Sandra Bullock. In addition to a slew of cameos and sitcom appearances, she's also gone serious for stints on the daytime soap The Bold and the Beautiful.

Many fans associate White with her ditzy, naive Golden Girls image and of late, she's had fun slapping that sweetheart image in the face by playing sassy and doing diva-licious cameos on shows like Ugly Betty.

Then, of course, there was that now infamous Snickers Super Bowl commercial, which led to the Facebook group "Betty White to host SNL (please)".

White has spent seven decades getting laughs, however. She's had a groundbreaking career, as a player both in front of and behind the camera, and those who watched TV before the '80s recognize her seemingly "new" energy from her devious character Sue Ann Nivens on The Carol Burnett Show and other gigs.

"I’ve always had a bawdy sense of humor," White said. "My father was a traveling salesman and he would bring jokes home. He'd tell them and they’d never explain them to me. My mom and dad had a wonderful sense of humor. We would even get through some of the grim times by at least keeping a little sense of humor. It sure beats the alternative."

The veteran of comedy is looking forward to hosting the special Mother's Day episode and working with SNL's returning ladies, not to mention Jay-Z, who she called "the hottest thing since sliced bread."

"I can't think of a better way to spend Mother's Day weekend than with Betty White," said SNL head honcho Lorne Michaels.

SheKnows couldn't agree more.

Betty White SNL preview VIDEO in article
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« Reply #2 on: May 09, 2010, 11:25:34 AM »

Betty White: golden hosting 'Saturday Night Live'

Betty White demonstrated how it's done as host of this week's "Saturday Night Live."

Drawing on her six decades in comedy, she was the consummate pro at 88 years old - sweet, sassy, salty, charming and clearly game for anything.

"I'm not new to live TV," she reminded the audience at the top of the show, and recalled that she had starred in a sitcom that aired live back in 1952.

"Of course, back then, we didn't WANT to do it live. We just didn't know how to tape things." A perfectly timed beat. "I don't know what THIS show's excuse is."

Billed by NBC as a special Mother's Day edition, the show had a definitely feminine tone and was a reunion of sorts for "SNL" alumnae, bringing back former regulars including Amy Poehler, Tina Fey, Ana Gasteyer and Molly Shannon. (Jay-Z was musical guest.)

But White was the queen bee, appearing in nearly every bit throughout the 90-minute span - and never failing to punch it up.

As a dotty resident being surveyed by census-taker Fey, White listed other residents in her apartment as Fluffy, Princess, Tigger and Socks.

"These are people we're talking about and not cats, right?" asked the wary Fey.

"There's really no way of knowing," came the reply. "Sometimes when I see their big eyes looking up from my lap, I think that's definitely a homeless guy in a fur coat."

White played the star of a new "CSI" spinoff set in a Florida retirement community, "CSI: Sarasota."

As an investigator (identified as David Caruso's great-aunt), she wasn't buying the story that the victim had died of natural causes.

"Oh, really," she scoffed. "Since when does a 103-year-old man simply drop dead?"

She appeared in three "MacGruber" sketches as the grandmother of the bumbling special-op agent played by Will Forte, each time nagging and berating him as he tried (unsuccessfully, of course) to defuse the ticking bomb.

She played the guest of Gasteyer and Shannon, co-hosts of a public-radio cooking show, in a sketch slyly built around an alternate meaning for "muffin."

"A lot of people like my pumpkin pie, and of course my carrot cake is legendary," White's bakery chef began proudly, "but if there's one thing I'm known for, it's my muffin." She didn't stop there.

And in a filmed short that should find a robust afterlife online, "SNL" cast members paid tribute to White by singing "Thank You for Being A Friend," the theme of her classic sitcom, "The Golden Girls."

"Oh, that was just lovely," said White when they were finished. "But I think I prefer my version," whereupon she pulled a black ski mask over her face and led a growling, rip-roaring death-metal rendition that left everyone reeling.

White, whose "SNL" gig resulted from a half-a-million-strong groundswell on Facebook after her hilarious Snickers commercial on the Super Bowl, took pains to thank Facebook during her opening monologue.

Her way.

"When I first heard about the campaign to get me to host 'Saturday Night Live,' I didn't know what Facebook was," White confessed. Then she exhibited her warm smile and a perfectly timed beat before marveling impishly, "Now that I DO know what it is, I have to say: It seems like a huge waste of time."

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« Reply #3 on: May 09, 2010, 11:51:39 AM »

Video clips, here.....this computer is bugging out, so maybe someone else can bring them here.

http://www.hulu.com/collections/444
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« Reply #4 on: May 09, 2010, 12:13:18 PM »

The Huffington Post has a few skits.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/09/betty-white-snl-video_n_564292.html
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« Reply #8 on: May 09, 2010, 01:35:08 PM »

You can watch all of them on the SNL website 

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« Reply #9 on: May 09, 2010, 04:50:51 PM »

Go Betty - She was GREAT Last Night - I loved her opening act ...talking about Facebook!

The Muffin scene was hysterical. Who ever wrote the Lawrence Welk skit ..omg too funny.

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