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How to start a revolution in 2010. A Betty White case study.
Betty White’s spectacular job at hosting Saturday Night Live this weekend proved a couple of things:
- 88-year-olds talking about their “muffins” is frighteningly funny.
- Social Media is not only here to stay . . . it’s here to influence.
In Betty White’s earlier days, if you wanted change, someone would undoubtedly tell you to write a letter. You’d hear, “Write your congressman,” or “Write the President of the Company,” or maybe even, “Write the editor of the newspaper, maybe they’ll run it in the paper and maybe a few people will see it on that specific given day and then it will disappear.”
Imagine if David Matthews (the man responsible for the “Betty White to Host SNL (please?)!” Facebook page that started this whole thing) had only a letter-writing campaign at his disposal to try and get that Golden Girl on the show.
Think
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SNL Pays Tribute to Betty White by Re-Airing Her Hosting Debut
Saturday Night Live will air a rerun of Betty White's hosting debut in honor of the late television icon.
As reported by Deadline, NBC will run the episode, which originally aired May 8, 2010 with Jay-Z as the musical guest, as an encore telecast on Jan. 1 at 11:30 p.m. EST. White, who was 88 at the time, was invited to host the special Mother's Day episode of SNL, making her the oldest person to host the variety comedy show. Her hosting debut pulled in more than 12 million viewers when it aired. She appeared in every sketch, which would later win her the final Emmy Award of her long-standing career for "Outstanding Guest Actress In A Comedy Series."
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White was asked to host an episode of Saturday Night Live after millions of people signed a petition calling for NBC to include her as a headliner. The petition, which began o
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How SNL Finally Got Betty White To Host The Show
When Betty White made her iconic "Saturday Night Live" hosting appearance in which fans saw her in every skit on the 90-minute sketch comedy series, it was after years of cajoling bygd Executive Producer Lorne Michaels. In fact, White turned down Michaels so many times, he had just about given up on ever having her on his show. "After three rejections, inom stopped asking," he once told Entertainment Weekly (via People).
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However, a commercial starring White for Snickers candy bars during the 2010 Super Bowl prompted David Matthews to launch a Facebook page called "Betty White to Host SNL (please?)!" Within a few months, a petition to get vit on the show gained hundreds of thousands of signatures, prompting White to finally agree to host the Saturday night show, according to Deadline.
"It was one of the most incredible experiences — it truly, truly was," White's longtime agent and close friend Jeff Witjas told People. "B