Sunday, May 9, 2010

Betty White Helps Boost Ratings of ‘SNL’

All it took to reinvigorate a 35-year-old comedy show was the presence of an 88-year-old woman. On Saturday, after more than 70 years in show business, six Emmy Awards and one improbable Facebook campaign, Betty White, left, got her shot at hosting “Saturday Night Live.” With her, the show had its highest ratings in a year and a half, according to preliminary Nielsen figures provided by NBC. Despite Ms. White’s opening monologue, which made distinctions between her generation and that of the “SNL” fans who pushed for her to host, she seemed at home on the show. She appeared in every sketch, playing, among others, an inadvertently naughty muffin mogul and a loopy census interviewee. The Mother’s Day-themed episode, which brought back the past cast members Molly Shannon, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Maya Rudolph, Rachel Dratch and Ana Gasteyer, was also a rare occasion on which the mostly male “SNL” cast took a back seat to its women: Ms. Shannon and Ms. Gasteyer appeared in their NPR parody, “Delicious Dish”; Ms. Rudolph made a return appearance as Whitney Houston; and Ms. Poehler was temporarily reseated at the “Weekend Update” desk. The musical guest was Jay-Z. Support for Ms. White, who became host of the show after a Facebook campaign, was evident on Twitter, where she was a trending topic on Sunday and had praise from fans including the teenage singer Justin Bieber, who tweeted after the broadcast, “BETTY WHITE RULES.”http://www.randomchat.ca/forum
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