Betty White Will Host SNL Saturday Night Live - Thanks to Facebook Fans
10 hours a day, 6.5 days a week.
I GET IT!
But a lot of people under-estimate the power of the people. When a recent grassroots campaign involved both Facebook and a beloved Golden Girl, the scope of its influence cannot be underestimated.
Between her cameo with Abe Vigoda in a Super Bowl commercial for Snickers, costarring with Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds in the romantic comedy "The Proposal," and being recognized for lifetime achievement by the Screen Actors Guild, Betty White is suddenly finding herself in even more places than President Obama.
A couple months ago, someone on Facebook started a campaign to get the 88-year old Betty White a spot on SNL. People laughed. Even she laughed!
"I don't even know where that came from," says White, "That just came out of left field. It's ridiculous. I don't think ['SNL' creator and producer] Lorne Michaels even knows about it, so we won't worry about it."
Today, sources say Saturday Night Live is thisclose to signing TV legend Betty White to host the show for the very first time.
But she would not have to host it alone.
We hear SNL is putting together a “Women of Comedy” episode that would team White with several of her younger contemporaries. Ex-SNL MVP Molly Shannon is on board, we hear, and feelers have also been put out to Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. (An NBC spokesperson insists no one has been confirmed at this time.)
This tag-team approach will allow Lorne Michaels to appease White-on-SNL zealots (half a million and counting!) without making the 88-year-old shoulder the burden of all 90 minutes on her own.
While Michaels has not made the offer yet to Betty, she isn't sitting around waiting by the phone! She keeps very busy and the Morris Animal Foundation, honored White last week for her lifetime commitment to improving the lives of animals. White has been on the foundation's board of directors since 1971. "My life has been divided into two halves: show business and animal work, the two things I love most," said White. "They keep electing me to the board, and I keep saying that it's time you threw me away by now. They haven't been able to get rid of me."
Next up for White in the showbiz world: costarring as Grandma Bunny in Disney's fall release "You Again" with Sigourney Weaver, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kristin Chenoweth and Kristen Bell. Bell plays a young woman whose brother is about to marry the school bully who used to pick on Bell in high school.
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