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Betty White is best known for her role as Rose Nylund on the 1980's primetime series The Golden Girls, and it's a credit she takes seriously. There's a new report that SNL writers have suggested a Golden Girls skit for Betty White's May 8 hosting gig on the show, and Betty White says no way. Here's why.

According to a Web report, SNL proposed a spoof of The Golden Girls starring Betty White on the May 8 SNL live broadcast, but White vetoed the idea because SNL wanted to show the ladies smoking marijuana and doing other mischievous things.

Betty White said no way! "I turned down a spoof of The Golden Girls that they wanted to do several years ago," Betty White said, "with the girls smoking pot and all that. I said, 'I don't think so, thank you very much. We don't go that way with those girls.'"

Betty White admits that she's feeling pretty nervous about her SNL star appearance on May 8, but it's a Mother's Day special and so SNL alum like Molly Shannon, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler will take the stage alongside White. She says, "I think maybe I'll take pity on the public and give them a break."

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i thought that same thing YOU DONT GO THAT WAY WITH THE GIRLS:( GO BETTY AKA ROSE

I admire Betty for taking a stand to protect the integrity of the characters she and her late castmates created on the Golden Girls. In so doing she was honoring Estelle, Bea, and Rue and their legacies as well as her own. Good for you Betty!!

GOTTA LOVE EM:D

...because the parodies on TV shows the "SNL" writers came up with this past season were 'misses', more than 'hits'.

To give you a good example, there was a sketch, featuring Alec Baldwin, parodying a typical 'Turner Classic Movies' offering. Only problem was, the writer(s) obviously never SAW a 'TCM' movie. They began it by having 'Ben Mankewicz' obviously returning from a "commercial break", which that channel has NEVER done. And the real Ben Mankewicz would never say, "We're in the middle of the 1952 drama, 'Whistle If You Can'...", because there [B]IS no "middle"; movies on 'TCM' are shown uninterrupted. I can understand if the sketch had to start with 'Ben' setting up the scene....but they could have done it as part of a mock retrospective of 'Preston Webb' films, fading in as 'Ben' introduces a segment from 'Webb's' 1952 film, 'Whistle If You Can'. That would have been more believable...

...and then there was the way the "film" was presented. As you know, "SNL" is currently telecast in high definition, which means the image is somewhat "lettterboxed". But the scene from 'Whistle If You Can', presented in that framework, is inaccurate, because there were no "wide screen" movies actually released in 1952. If the "film" had been presented in a "full frame" effect, that would have been more believable...even if you lost the full "letterbox" image. If you're going to satirize a legitimate TV staple or program, you must present that parody as close to the genuine article as possible....

...and that's another thing: the "movie", as depicted here, could NEVER have been released in 1952...not with the "Hollywood Production Code"'s regulations against depictions of prostitution and "unacceptable" slang, as seen in 'Whistle If You Can'- no motion picture [B]ever released during that period featured a line like "Give me a hand job, Gertrude!" in their scripts. That's what the twenty-something writer(s) didn't comprehend, know, or failed to grasp about Hollywood movies during that period. I can imagine the writer(s) watched 'TCM' a few times, said, "Hey, let's do a parody on one of their movies", and this unbelievable {and unfunny} sketch was the end result. A waste of time for everybody concerned, including myself. [Well, not exactly; I wouldn't have ranted about this if I'd liked it!]

Now you know why Betty was adamant about doing a "Golden Girls" parody the way the writers intended to...

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thnx

I was surprised there was not a Golden Girls schetch. But that makes sense if Betty didn't approve of it.

i do have to say that snl cast member fred armisen does do a pretty good imation of bea

i have to admit i was disapointed there wasnt one, but sorta of glad in a way knowing what their writers come up with.

by the way did any of the other girls host snl
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Bea hosted it back in 79 or 80. Too bad Betty didn't protest the theme re-do. That was dreadful. But the rest of the show was a hoot.