fans joined facebook pages to lobby for it, media outlets wrote stories willing for it to happen..and now it has! the amazing, talented and wonderful betty white has confirmed that she will appear on snl this season. the 88-year-old legend gained fame in the roles of sue ann nivens and rose nylund, played password alongside her late husband and has now seen a resurgence in her popularity, thanks in part, to her snickers super bowl ad. her appearance will no doubt set up snl and nbc for a ratings bonanza they haven't seen in years! i am as big of a fan as any of this bawdy and sharp tongued octogenarian, which is why the i find the second half of this snl story so bothersome....
white's appearance will be part of snl's "women of comedy" night...so who, you may ask, will be the other comedy geniuses and legends to grace the stage that night? snl vets tina fey, amy poehler and molly shannon. ....REALLY? molly shannon? amy poehler? (i happen to like tina fey, so while i am unsure she fits either, i am not as outraged by her). to me this is an insult to white and her contribution to entertainment. snl being as self serving as they are, clearly only reached out to their own alums for consideration...but even so, they couldn't have had a recruited a laraine newman, jane curtin or candice bergen? or god forbid reach beyond their own little inbred pool fathered by lorne michales to a carol burnett, lily tomlin, marlo thomas or tracey ullman....or think to reunite white with rue mcclanahan or mary tyler moore?
my point, and i do have one....is that i am so excited to see anything and everything that betty white does, but i am completely and utterly disgusted by snl. what’s your point?
First...love your title!
ReplyDeleteNow...what are they afraid of? Do they think that Betty White is not physically capable of doing the show on her own? I'm sure she would be just fine. As for the choice of other women comedy geniuses and legends...Give me a break...These women are not deserving of that accolade. Almost any of the others you mentioned would be a better fit. Shame on SNL!
yeah, i can't say i'm as outraged as you about it, but i agree. they should have picked women of her same caliber or let her do it on her own!
ReplyDeleteI could not agree with you more. I was one who quickly jumped on the Facebook/ Betty White for SNL campaign. Long before the Super Bowl commercial(Which I did love BTW. Hooray for Snickers!) In the movie "The Proposal", the best humor scenes were the ones with Betty White. Everyone that saw the movie before me told me to go and see the movie because of two things. One, being Ryan Reynolds bare chest and the other, Betty White. I say that if a woman in her 80's can rank as high as that cougar favorite Ryan Reynolds, then she can HOST SNL not just "appear"! But what else can I expect from SNL? What I mean is the writing lately has been horrid. It is only happenstance when something is funny lately or it is because they have a very clever host. I have heard that if you ask for something that you need to be specific. I guess we need to spell it out. You know those men can be a little dim sometimes! (I mean Lorne Michaels) We want our Betty!
ReplyDeleteI had no idea that's what SNL was doing. I thought she was going to host and then get to appear in sketches throughout the show like everyone else. Now I'm mad!
ReplyDeleteSNL is missing a golden opportunity here. They could show this generation just who influenced the likes of Tina Fey & Amy Poehler by inviting Carol Burnett & MTM.
And why are old men like Steve Martin & Chevy Chase still allowed to host alone but not Betty White? She's got more spunk and energy then both of those old dudes combined.