I loved Betty White on this weekend’s Saturday Night Live, but I was worried about her. They had her standing and dancing so much! And she was in so many skits, and had to do so many costume changes. I was worried they were going to exhaust her. Turns out, Betty is a total pro, and she’s perfectly capable of partying with the young’uns until 3 a.m. So says Life & Style Magazine, who clocked Betty’s post-SNL activities. Betty went out with the SNL cast members and stayed out until 3 a.m. And then our beloved Dusty Muffin caught her flight back to LA at 6 a.m. Sunday morning. Betty is a goddess.

She may be 88 1/2 years old, but don’t say Betty White doesn’t know how to party. An eyewitness tells Life & Style that the former Golden Girl was getting down at the May 8 Saturday Night Live afterparty at Docks in NYC on Saturday until 3 a.m.! “She had no problem keeping up with the youngsters,” the eyewitness tells Life & Style.

And it was clear that the SNL cast members loved having Betty host. “She got a standing ovation when she arrived at the party a little before 2 a.m. In 10 years of working on the show, I’ve never seen that before,” says the eyewitness. Helping Betty celebrate were SNL cast member Andy Samberg and Matthew Broderick.

While Betty stuck to drinking water at the party, she did have one request while she was rehearsing the night before: a stiff, chilled vodka! As for any other divalike demands, Betty tells Life & Style that doing the show was work enough: “Special requests? Who could even think of that? I was just so focused on what I had to do. I had to learn how to read cue cards for tonight!”

While Betty was celebrating until the wee hours of the morning, we know she couldn’t have been out all night: “She had to catch a flight at 6:30 a.m. on Sunday morning!” the eyewitness dishes.

Celebrating wasn’t the only reward for Betty: the ratings for her episode of SNL were the highest in the past 18 months!

[From Life & Style]

A year and a half? That was probably the episode with Sarah Palin’s appearance? Probably. I can’t believe Betty’s appearance didn’t get higher ratings than the Palin one! I also love that the cast gave her a standing ovation – she totally deserved it. She wipes the floor with comedians a third her age, in talent, professionalism, attitude and energy.

By the way, The Bieb loves Betty too. He tweeted “BETTY WHITE RULES.” Thus spoketh The Bieb. Also, SNL released another video, of a sketch that cut because of time. Betty is only in it for a few seconds:

And here’s the Lawrence Welk skit. I didn’t include in yesterday’s post, but I always love when they do these. Kristen Wiig is insane:

Everyone always loved Betty White before, but would they still love her after more than an hour of muffin and lesbian jokes? The answer is a resounding yes, as Saturday Night Live had what was likely their best episode of the season with Betty as host. Betty didn’t do it alone though – many of the best female cast members came back for sketches, including Molly Shannon, Ana Gasteyer, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler and Rachel Dratch. Entertainment Weekly points out that “many of the sketches simply played off the idea of an old woman saying something naughty… over and over and over.” Eh. She was still one of the most deft comediennes to ever serve as an SNL host, and I think it was a great testament to Betty’s comedic skills and energy that she was featured in so many sketches.

In her opening monologue, Betty cracked several jokes about the Facebook movement to make her SNL host. Betty quipped: “Now that I know what [Facebook] is, it sounds like a huge waste of time. I would never say that the people on it are losers, but that’s only because I’m polite.”

This was one of the best sketches, featuring Gasteyer and Shannon in their old NPR skit. Betty White talking about “Dusty Muffins” was hilarious:

And here’s the “Gingy is a lesbian” sketch, one of the few where they let Betty sit down. I was worried about her having to stand and dance around so much in the other sketches.

And SNL is fully committed to selling their new film McGruber, so they had THREE McGruber sketches, with Betty playing Grandma McGruber. Here are all three combined in one video:

All in all, I really do think Betty was one of the best hosts SNL has ever had, and she’s certainly the best of the season. Throughout the show, however, I was constantly reminded of how many talented women worked on SNL at various times, and how the show is so much better when they return – what the hell is Ana Gasteyer doing these days? She should come back to SNL!

For the full Betty White episode, go here.

Betty White’s SNL photos, courtesy of SNL online.

As many of you remember, Betty White is the special guest host of this week’s Saturday Night Live. NBC just released three promos for the event, and they’re pretty funny. In case you were hoping for more “Betty is a hot cougar, and she will tap that ass” jokes, I’m sorry to disappoint you. Instead, you’ll just have to enjoy Betty throwing a gang sign:

See? She’s going to be pretty funny I think. And in case you missed it, here’s Betty’s first SNL promo, which features the obligatory hot piece:

And in one last piece of Betty news, she was named one of Time Magazine’s “Most Influential” people, and last night she attended the gala. There are some photos of her with Sarah Palin, but we don’t have those. Instead, enjoy Betty with Martha Stewart and Taylor Swift:

Last night, Robert Pattinson showed that he has a sense of humor about himself and showed up on Jimmy Fallon’s late night show. Fallon has been gently and hilariously mocking Sparkles with his reoccurring gag “Robert Pattinson Is Bothered” in which Jimmy (in character as Sparkles) sits in a tree and rages against things that bother him. Last night, Sparkles showed up in one of the bits, and the result was funny. It would have been funnier if Fallon hadn’t been mugging for the camera, but Sparkles gave me a chuckle. Here’s the video and OK! Magazine’s summary:

R-Pattz impersonator, Jimmy Fallon, was joined in his tree by the real Twilight star on Monday’s Late Night, where they both confessed to being “bothered.”

“Sometimes, I climb into my tree and I think about things that bother me. Like the month of March bothers me!” Jimmy-as-Robert insisted. “OK? Comes in like a lion, out like a lamb — what the f*** does that mean?!”

The camera panned to the real Robert Pattinson, clutching on to a tree-branch of his own and looking bewildered at Jimmy’s impression.

“Hey! I don’t talk like that,” said Rob.

“How does it make you feel?” Jimmy asked.

“I don’t know how it makes me feel, to be honest,” Rob replied. “A little bit annoyed, a little bit frustrated…”

“A little bit… something that starts with a ‘b’ maybe?” Jimmy encouraged.

“Maybe a little bit broken,” Rob countered. However, he finally caved and admitted he was “bothered.”

Back in the studio with Jimmy, Rob revealed his talk show tactics during the run-up to New Moon’s release.

“I got so used to all the answers, I remember going on Letterman and I was terrified of going on Letterman for the New Moon junket,” he said.

“I knew I’m going to get asked the same questions every time, so I prepared all my answers just before and I was so comfortable when I walked in because every little nuance and mannerism was all planned out.”

[From OK! Magazine]

Cute, right? I thinking more and more highly of Sparkles the more I see him. He’s got a very sweet sense of humor and he’s not an arrogant bastard. Meanwhile, this morning Sparkles appeared on The View, and those ladies couldn’t get enough of him. They barely even spoke to poor Emilie de Ravin, who was also there. Barbara Walters asked Sparkles about the “allergic to vaginas” comments, to which Sparkles replies: “I learned two things from that interview. One thing, never try to make jokes in printed interviews, and the other is just never do interviews ever. I do have an actual allergy. It’s terrible. It’s a curse.” Soon after, Sherri Shepherd asks Sparkles if he would date an older woman, to which he replies: “I think Betty White is probably one of the sexiest women in America… She’s vibrant; it’s sexy. I think the more age the better.” He’s so cute.

Here’s Part 1 of The View interview:

Part 2 (the Betty White part):

Part 3 (the part with the vadge allergy & Sparkles‘ mom!):

Sandra Bullock gave a funny interview to USA Today to promote her new film, The Proposal. Mostly, the interview is about how much Bullock loves her costar Betty White, and how Betty White is pretty much the most awesome person around. A Golden Girls devotee myself, I’m totally with Sandra on this one. Sandra talks about the funny scene (that’s in the previews) of Betty feeling Sandra up and cracking a joke about how she’s flat-chested. But the best part of the interview was when Sandra talks about how she feels a real kinship with Betty because they both chose to be stepmothers but not biological mothers. As Sandra says it, “I may never hear that word ‘mom’. But being a parent is not about breeding. It’s about caring. And it’s easy to say, but it’s harder to do.” Amen to that. Sandra’s comments sort of remind me of what Cameron Diaz said last week, that “we don’t need any more kids, we have plenty of people on this planet.”

Betty White steals every scene she’s in during The Proposal by doing her never-fail mischievous granny routine. And star Sandra Bullock knows it. “You have to play the straight guy. There’s no way you’re going to match her.”

When the elder actress feels around Bullock’s chest for her breasts while altering a baggy wedding dress and declares, “It’s like an Easter egg hunt,” the line gets them every time. “She was one of the most gentle lovers I’ve ever had,” Bullock jokes. “And I was thankful that she found them.”

White has even gone viral, thanks to a mock on-the-set video that has received almost 300,000 views on the humor website Funny or Die. She harasses male lead Ryan Reynolds, calling him an “ab-crunching jackass,” and sneakily flashes him the finger while being syrupy sweet to Bullock.

What did take Bullock aback was how the life of TV’s onetime Happy Homemaker, Golden Girl and game-show queen paralleled hers, a fact she learned while doing publicity with fellow cast members.

“Someone made a comment about your husband and children and all that stuff,” she says about White, 87, who found lasting love in her early 40s with Password host and widower Allen Ludden after two short-lived marriages. “She said, ‘You know what? I never had children biologically. I married someone who had three children. And how blessed I was to have those three stepchildren.’ That’s exactly what happened to me.”

Given how gossip rags are always speculating on whether Bullock is pregnant with her motorcycle mogul husband Jesse James, White’s inspirational words struck home. “I went, ‘Wow.’ When everyone is going ‘You should have a baby now,’ I’m like, ‘I could. Maybe I should. But do I need to?’”

Bullock continues to adjust to life as a stepmom. She and James work closely with his first wife to raise his two older children. “We all parent together,” she says. “It’s beautiful. It’s like synchronized swimming.” Daughter Sunny, 5, has been living with her dad and Bullock while his second wife, porn star Janine Lindemulder, serves time for failing to pay taxes.

“I may never hear that word ‘mom,’ ” Bullock says. “But being a parent is not about breeding. It’s about caring. And it’s easy to say, but it’s harder to do. When you don’t have that title, you flounder and it hurts. But this is the best test of being a parent. And I just have to keep reminding myself I don’t care what I get. I care what I give.”

[From USA Today]

I didn’t know that about Betty White, so I found her romantic history very interesting. Most people have probably already seen the video that the article referenced from Funny or Die featuring Sandra, Ryan Reynolds and Betty White, but here’s the link to it anyway. Even though I think The Proposal looks horrible, I hope Betty gets a solid career resurgence out of it. Betty needs to be in more movies and television shows. Cast her on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, they always get great old-school stars to play perverts.

Sandra, Sunny and Jesse James are shown at LAX on 7/27/08. Credit: Bauergriffin

Former Golden Girl Betty White, 86, was on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson yesterday and her interview made me laugh out loud several times. Her lines were scripted jokes, but she delivered them so well it hardly mattered. I was pretty surprised when I looked up her age for this article, because I assumed she was in her 70s. She looks great and she still has very good comic timing.

White brought out a bunch of receipts in a shoe box and told Ferguson she wanted to get her taxes done before the deadline. Ferguson asked “What about the interview?”

White said “What does it matter? You usually just talk about yourself. It’s ‘Blah Blah I’m so funny. Blah blah I had a penis enlargement.’”

Ferguson told her he had a problem with her doing her taxes on the show, and she said “Do you want me to get audited by the IRS? I don’t want them taking me up in their ship and shoving all kinds of weird probes in me.”

Ferguson asked “Is there anyway I can help you get this all finished?”

“What would you know about taxes? You’re an illegal immigrant… To me you’ll always be ‘Craig Ferguson, the dirty French bastard.’”

“Betty, you don’t have to be stressed about your taxes, I got an extension.”

“There you go again about your penis enlargement.”

Craig said they better wrap it up, and Betty asked if she could plug something before she left.

Craig said she’s going to film a Disney movie called The Proposal with Sandra Bullock, and she said that’s true, but “actually I wanted to plug that Will Smith movie, Bad Boys, it’s playing on Showtime right now. And it’s a hell of a lot better than this crap fest.”

“He’s great Will Smith, isn’t he?”

“Yes he is. I’ve never had him.”

Here’s the interview, thanks to monkeyboy on Redlasso.

Betty White is shown in the header on 6/15/07 at the daytime Emmy Awards, thanks to PRPhotos.