Betty White will host Saturday Night Live for the first time on May 8 — and the show is already shaping up to be the hottest ticket in the Big Apple.
A number of Hollywood bigwigs — including Betty’s Proposal co-star Sandra Bullock — have already requested tickets to the show, making it next next to impossible for fans to snag seats to sit in on Betty’s performance, TV industry tattles tell PopEater’s “Naughty But Nice Column.” Luckily, David Matthews, the man behind the Facebook campaign that brought the former Golden Girl to SNL, has been reserved a seat in the audience.
Those lucky enough to be in the house when Betty brings her own brand of humor to the long-running NBC sketch series will be in for a treat: “Its very early, but Betty would love to do a spoof of ‘Sex and The City,’ with her playing an older Carrie. After all, the ‘Golden Girls’ was the original ‘Sex and The City.’”
It's official: Betty White will host NBC's Saturday Night Live on May 8, WNBC News announced Thursday morning.
Besides featuring the Golden Girl, who was the subject of a Facebook campaign to get her the gig, the special Mother's Day episode will also reunite six former female SNL cast members, most of whom happen to be moms: Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Molly Shannon, Maya Rudolph, Ana Gasteyer and Rachel Dratch.
The show's creator-producer, Lorne Michaels, tells USA Today that the Facebook campaign, which kicked in after White's Super Bowl commercial for Snickers, "took on a groundswell. [White as the host] isn't something we would have said no to, [but the campaign] validated that, 'Oh, that'd be fun' … It was the outpouring of affection from fans, and we feel the same way."
And while White, 88, has no children of her own – except for her golden retriever, Pontiac – Michaels justifies her Mother's Day appearance by explaining, "She's the mother of us all in comedy."
“Years ago, I turned [SNL] down three times,” Betty told USA Today. “It’s so New York, and I’m not New York at all. But my agent said he’d divorce me if I didn’t do it, and I love my agent.”
You Asked for It, You Got It: Comic genius Betty White will host NBC’s Saturday Night Live — for the first time in the show’s 35 year history — on May 8.
Betty’s appearance in a popular Super Bowl ad sparked a Facebook campaign that has actually come to fruition: the funnywoman and former Golden Girl has been tipped to host the upcoming Mother’s Day episode of SNL, series creator Lorne Michaels has confirmed to USA TODAY.
The Betty White to Host SNL (please?)! Facebook page launched shortly after Betty and Abe Vigoda were seen playing football with men young enough to be their great-grandsons in a Snickers Super Bowl commercial. Since then, the group has attracted more than 485,000 whippersnappers. Betty’s so hot right now even Robert Pattinson thinks she’s sexy.
And she won’t be coming to 30 Rockefeller Center alone: The May 8 episode will also feature a reunion of six former female cast members, many of them now moms themselves, including: Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Molly Shannon, Maya Rudolph, Ana Gasteyer, and Rachel Dratch.
In what seems like the perfect pairing for the "Saturday Night Live" stage, Tina Fey will be back to host the April 10 show, and she'll be joined by teen phenom Justin Bieber, who's been tapped as that week's musical guest. While Fey didn't reveal any skit plans to MTV News on the red carpet at the Academy Awards on Sunday, she did reveal some of her grooming plans for the young singer.
"I'm gonna pick him up like this," she said, swinging her arms as if she were holding a baby. "And I'm gonna push those bangs out of his face like this [licks her finger], like a mother."
All joking aside, Fey is looking forward to working with Bieber. "No, I'm excited," she added. "I like people who can really sing and I think he can really sing."
Meanwhile, Bieber tweeted that he'd like a certain action hero to join him on the show, writing, "Me and Chuck Norris should do SNL together. That would be good. Very good." For her part, Fey wouldn't confirm or deny that she'd re-emerge on the "SNL" set as Sarah Palin. "Well, I'm sure we'll try," she speculated. "We always try at 'SNL.' You have read-throughs and you have dress [rehearsal] and we'll see if anything sticks."
Perhaps Bieber and Fey's Palin could meet up in a digital short. Bieber seems liked he'd be down to do anything in one of those. He tweeted, "Shoutout to @BieberOnSNL and all the other fans who support me. It's happening! SNL in APRIL!! Digital Short Music Vid??"
Comedy fans rejoice! Betty White has confirmed that she will make an appearance on Saturday Night Live later this season.
Fans have been clamoring for the 88-year-old White to host SNL for months. A Facebook page devoted to the cause has nearly 1 million followers. Last month, they were whispers that Betty would join a few other fellow femme comediennes, like Molly Shannon and Tina Fey, for a SNL Women of Comedy Special.
“I don’t know why or how, but it’s been wonderful.” Betty recently said of the grassroots campaign to bring her to SNL.
If Betty is tipped to host SNL, she will become the oldest person in the show’s 35 year history to do so.
Zach Galifianakis marked his Saturday Night Live hosting gig this weekend by saying goodbye to his trademark beard. While hosting the late-night sketch comedy series on Saturday, the 40-year-old comedian slipped backstage and emerged with his signature shaggy, reddish beard gone — and a moustache in its place.
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