{"id":325344,"date":"2010-02-16T05:00:05","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T10:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=93295"},"modified":"2010-02-16T05:00:05","modified_gmt":"2010-02-16T10:00:05","slug":"betty-white-tickled-by-%e2%80%9csaturday-night-live%e2%80%9d-hosting-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/325344","title":{"rendered":"Betty White Tickled By \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d Hosting Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Golden Girls<\/em> legend Betty White is stunned fans have set up a group on Facebook campaigning to land her a job as host on <em>Saturday Night Live<\/em> &#8211; because she thought people would be sick of seeing her on TV by now!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Betty-White-On-SNL-500x750.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Betty White On SNL\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-91833\" \/><\/p>\n<p>David Mathews, a lifelong Betty White Fan, created The Betty White Facebook Fan Page last month and sent a letter to the <em>SNL<\/em> creator Lorne Michaels, imploring him to give the comedy legend a shot on <em>SNL<\/em>, when the fan page reached 5,000 followers. Over 330,000 members of the website have signed a petition to urge show bosses to consider letting White act as a celebrity host on the long-running sketch show for the first time in her more than 50 year career.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-93295\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The campaign follows 88-year-old Betty&#8217;s popular Super Bowl ad for Snickers. The actress is overwhelmed by so many people&#8217;s desire to see her back on the small screen.<\/p>\n<p>She tells E! Online: <em>&#8220;I&#8217;m just amazed. I would think by now that they&#8217;ve had such an overdose of Betty White that they&#8217;d be throwing rocks instead. (It) would depend on scheduling and all that. But who knows? You can&#8217;t ever say yes or no or never &#8211; you just wait to see what happens.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/W_L-d5sdykIA50XTx4HEIXqF63U\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/W_L-d5sdykIA50XTx4HEIXqF63U\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/W_L-d5sdykIA50XTx4HEIXqF63U\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/W_L-d5sdykIA50XTx4HEIXqF63U\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Golden Girls legend Betty White is stunned fans have set up a group on Facebook campaigning to land her a job as host on Saturday Night Live &#8211; because she thought people would be sick of seeing her on TV by now! David Mathews, a lifelong Betty White Fan, created The Betty White Facebook Fan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5335,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-325344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}