Sexy cougar Betty White’s anti-aging secrets

Cancel your plans to go out Saturday, May 8 because the hottest party in the world is gonna be on your television when Betty White hosts SNL!

Here’s the promo clip, which dispels all those rumors about Betty Swirling on the internet:

Transcript:

“Thanks to the internet I’m hosting Saturday Night Live! But don’t believe everything you hear on the web. Do you know they call me a cougar? And they say I’m dating a young hottie? Not true. (She pauses for effect as a beefy guy in a wifebeater starts dusting behind her.)

I married him.”

Betty White isn’t like the rest of us, we sometimes take life too seriously, and all that stress makes us grow old and irrelevant. At 88-years-old Betty’s hotter than ever, and everyone who meets her or sees her on tv falls in love with her (her buddy Craig Fergeson even wants to marry her, but he’s obviously not hot enough, see above.) One of Betty’s secrets is that she’s always been in on the joke, in on the game. The woman helped create television!

In 1939 Betty White sang on an experimental television transmission, and then landed an everyday gig on the variety show Hollywood on Television, which ran for hours every day and required Betty and her cohosts to do their own advertisements. Click here to see Betty talk about that, and footage of her vocal talents.

Betty won her first Emmy for Life with Elizabeth (1952-55), where she played the title character, a ditzy-quirky character to straight man Del Moore, who played her husband (trivia tidbit: Betty’s name isn’t a nickname, her birth name is Betty White because her parents didn’t like the other nicknames for Elizabeth). She’s been a television staple ever since with lovable and hilarious roles on the Mary Tyler More Show, Golden Girls, and more recently Private Practice and Boston Legal. Betty also has an upcoming recurring role on Valeria Bertinelli’s original TV Land sitcom Hot in Cleveland.

Now, of course, she’s taken over the internet with her killer Funny or Die segment to promote The Proposal, her bad-a$$ Snicker commercial, and now her Facebook driven campaign to host SNL, a show that desperately needs an injection of genuine funny. The People have spoken and The People want more Betty White. We can’t get enough. In fact, Betty White has been asked by Lorne Michaels to host SNL many, many times over the decades, but she declined every time. It wasn’t until her fans absolutely demanded it that she finally gave in.

So, how does Betty do it? Why is she so awesome?

Here’s a secret, straight from Betty’s out-of-print 1987 book Betty White . . . In Person where the Queen of all Comedy gives a little hint about what keeps her young. Of course, this was written back when she was a 60-something spring chicken, but it’s this type of wisdom that has kept her hip, young, and relevant:

“It is my firm conviction that while time is wreaking its havoc on the outside of us, the person inside doesn’t change all that much. The years may mellow the forceful individual, or, with any luck, bring a little assurance to the timid soul . . . but underneath all the silt of experience that settles is the same personality that was there in the beginning. Stir up the silt every now and then and watch the same personality shoot for the surface.

It’s a fascinating phenomenon to watch for .. . in yourself as well as as in others. You’ll know it when you see it. The fun of this private little game is that it not only makes you more sensitive to the people around you . . . it keeps you so tuned in you forget to grow old.”

Thanks Betty, may we all forget to grow old. ; )