History Creator / BettyWhite

The grand dame of American TV comedy, Betty Marion White is currently 94 years young and has been at work in the entertainment industry since 1939, when she began her career on the radio. She then got in on the ground floor of the newfangled medium of television, with her first Website/IMDb credit for TV dating to 1949. By 1953, she had her first starring role (the sitcom ''LifeWithElizabeth''). First nominated for an Emmy in 1951, she was nominated a further 20 times and so far has won seven times.

She has her own clothing line, and t-shirts with her face on them are [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff huge in Tokyo]].

* GameShowHost: Of ''Just Men!'', for which she won her only daytime Emmy despite Creator/{{NBC}} canning it after 13 weeks. Due to the way the Emmy nomination period worked at the time, she was actually nominated for it a second time.

* BitingTheHandHumor: When she hosted on ''[[Series/SaturdayNightLive SNL]]'' (which, really, is a [[SelfDeprecation trademark gag on SNL nowadays]]), she mentioned that her first TV show was broadcast live, because they didn't know how to record TV yet. She's not sure what their excuse at ''SNL'' is[[note]][[DontExplainTheJoke ''SNL'''s excuse for doing their show live is because they want the comedy and memorable moments to be unexpected.]][[/note]] The petition to have her host was on Facebook. So of course Betty decided to call Facebook "a huge waste of time."

* BitingTheHandHumor: When she hosted on ''[[Series/SaturdayNightLive SNL]]'' (which, really, is a [[SelfDeprecation trademark gag on SNL nowadays]]), she mentioned that her first TV show was broadcast live, because they didn't know how to record TV yet. She's not sure what their excuse at ''SNL'' is[[note]]''SNL'''s excuse for doing their show live is because they want the comedy and memorable moments to be unexpected.[[/note]] The petition to have her host was on Facebook. So of course Betty decided to call Facebook "a huge waste of time."

The grand dame of American TV comedy, Betty Marion White is currently 93 years young and has been at work in the entertainment industry since 1939, when she began her career on the radio. She then got in on the ground floor of the newfangled medium of television, with her first Website/IMDb credit for TV dating to 1949. By 1953, she had her first starring role (the sitcom ''LifeWithElizabeth''). First nominated for an Emmy in 1951, she was nominated a further 20 times and so far has won seven times.

* AdamWesting: On her guest appearance on ''UglyBetty''
* BitingTheHandHumor: When she hosted on ''{{SNL}}'' (which, really, is a [[SelfDeprecation trademark gag on SNL nowadays]]), she mentioned that her first TV show was broadcast live, because they didn't know how to record TV yet. She's not sure what their excuse at ''SNL'' is[[note]]''SNL'''s excuse for doing their show live is because they want the comedy and memorable moments to be unexpected.[[/note]] The petition to have her host was on Facebook. So of course Betty decided to call Facebook "a huge waste of time."

White has undergone something of a late-career renaissance since 2009. In 2009, she had a supporting role in the successful romantic comedy ''Film/TheProposal'' starring SandraBullock. She appeared in a famous Snickers ad for the 2010 Super Bowl (which also happened to include Abe Vigoda), which inspired an originally semi-ironic Website/{{Facebook}} campaign to get her to host the long-running sketch show ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' during Season 35. The campaign was a big hit, and Lorne Michaels brought her on the show, making White the oldest host in the show's history at age 88 and a half (and beat out the only non-celebrity host — Miskel Spillman, who was 80 at the time, helmed the 1977 Christmas show after winning the "Anyone Can Host" contest in Season 3). She also had numerous high-profile guest appearances, like a recurring professor on ''Series/{{Community}}'', and received the Screen Actors Guild's Life Achievement Award in 2010. She contributed to TVLand's NetworkDecay by starring in ''HotInCleveland'', although that's hardly a bad thing. In 2012, she began hosting a new prank show on NBC, ''Betty White's Off Their Rockers'', featuring old people pranking youngsters. In August of 2015 [[http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/28/entertainment/betty-white-bones-feat/index.html she announced]] that she would guest-star in an episode of ''Series/{{Bones}}''.

White has undergone something of a late-career renaissance since 2009. In 2009, she had a supporting role in the successful romantic comedy ''Film/TheProposal'' starring SandraBullock. She appeared in a famous Snickers ad for the 2010 Super Bowl (which also happened to include Abe Vigoda), which inspired an originally semi-ironic Website/{{Facebook}} campaign to get her to host the long-running sketch show ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' during Season 35. The campaign was a big hit, and Lorne Michaels brought her on the show, making White the oldest host in the show's history at age 88 and a half (and beat out the only non-celebrity host — Miskel Spillman, who was 80 at the time, helmed the 1977 Christmas show after winning the "Anyone Can Host" contest in Season 3). She also had numerous high-profile guest appearances, like a recurring professor on ''Series/{{Community}}'', and received the Screen Actors Guild's Life Achievement Award in 2010. She contributed to TVLand's NetworkDecay by starring in ''HotInCleveland'', although that's hardly a bad thing. In 2012, she began hosting a new prank show on NBC, ''Betty White's Off Their Rockers'', featuring old people pranking youngsters.

The grand dame of American TV comedy, Betty Marion White is currently 92 years young and has been at work in the entertainment industry since 1939, when she began her career on the radio. She then got in on the ground floor of the newfangled medium of television, with her first Website/IMDb credit for TV dating to 1949. By 1953, she had her first starring role (the sitcom ''LifeWithElizabeth''). First nominated for an Emmy in 1951, she was nominated a further 20 times and so far has won seven times.

* ConspiracyTheory: At Betty's 90th birthday celebration, BarackObama delivered her a recorded message saying he couldn't believe how old she was... so he would have to see her long-form birth certificate.

* In her initial phase, lasting from the 1950s until the early 1970s, she became known to the public through her various sitcoms and her appearances on ''Series/{{Password}}'' and other game shows hosted by her third husband, Allen Ludden. This Betty was a sweet and charming woman, the classic sitcom mother. (One exception to this was her small role as a United States Senator in ''Film/AdviseAndConsent''.)

The grand dame of American TV comedy, Betty Marion White is currently 92 years young and has been at work in the entertainment industry since 1939, when she began her career on the radio. She then got in on the ground floor of the newfangled medium of television, with her first Website/IMDb credit for TV dating to 1949. By 1953, she had her first starring role (the sitcom ''LifeWithElizabeth''). First nominated for an Emmy in 1951, she was nominated a further 19 times and so far has won seven times.

* HappilyMarried: [[http://youtu.be/upofiPa8od8 To Allen]] [[http://youtu.be/BJOTbY0Eums Ludden]] before he passed away. She had two short-lived marriages before; after Ludden's death, she never remarried.

She has her own clothing line, and t-shirts with her face on them are, at the moment, [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff huge in Tokyo]].

* AdamWesting: On her guest appearance on ''UglyBetty''
* [[BadassGrandpa Badass Grandma]]: Face it, she is the closest to one in real life.
* BitingTheHandHumor: When she hosted on ''{{SNL}}'' (which, really, is a [[SelfDeprecation trademark gag on SNL nowadays]]), she mentioned that her first TV show was broadcast live, because they didn't know how to record TV yet. She's not sure what their excuse at ''SNL'' is[[note]]''SNL'''s excuse for doing their show live is because they want the comedy and memorable moments to be unexpected.[[/note]]
** The petition to have her host was on Facebook. So of course Betty decided to call Facebook "a huge waste of time."

* DeadpanSnarker: Many of her recent roles have her do this. She's ''extremely'' good at it.
** She's prone to the snark in real life too.

* FriendToAllLivingThings: She's the head of the San Diego Zoo, too.

* RacistGrandma: In ''Series/{{Everwood}}'', among other places, though that specific example was only latently racist.

* {{BadassGrandpa Badass Grandma}}: Face it, she is the closest to one in real life.

The grand dame of American TV comedy, Betty Marion White is currently 91 years young and has been at work in the entertainment industry since 1939, when she began her career on the radio. She then got in on the ground floor of the newfangled medium of television, with her first Website/IMDb credit for TV dating to 1949. By 1953, she had her first starring role (the sitcom ''LifeWithElizabeth''). First nominated for an Emmy in 1951, she was nominated a further 19 times and so far has won seven times.

The grand dame of American TV comedy, Betty Marion White is currently 91 years young and has been at work in the entertainment industry since 1939, when she began her career on the radio. She then got in on the ground floor of the newfangled medium of television, with her first IMDb credit for TV dating to 1949. By 1953, she had her first starring role (the sitcom ''LifeWithElizabeth''). First nominated for an Emmy in 1951, she was nominated a further 19 times and so far has won seven times.

* In her initial phase, lasting from the 1950s until the early 1970s, she became known to the public through her various sitcoms and her appearances on ''Series/{{Password}}'' and other game shows hosted by her third husband, Allen Ludden. This Betty was a sweet and charming woman, the classic sitcom mother. (One exception to this was her small role as a United States Senator in ''Film/AdviseAndConsent''.

* In her initial phase, lasting from the 1950s until the early 1970s, she became known to the public through her various sitcoms and her appearances on ''Series/{{Password}}'' and other game shows hosted by her third husband, Allen Ludden. This Betty was a sweet and charming woman, the classic sitcom mother.

* In her initial phase, lasting from the 1950s until the early 1970s, she became known to the public through her various sitcoms and her appearances on ''{{Password}}'' and other game shows hosted by her third husband, Allen Ludden. This Betty was a sweet and charming woman, the classic sitcom mother.

White has undergone something of a late-career renaissance in the last year or so. In 2009, she had a supporting role in the successful romantic comedy ''Film/TheProposal'' starring SandraBullock. She appeared in a famous Snickers ad for the 2010 Super Bowl (which also happened to include Abe Vigoda), which inspired an originally semi-ironic Website/{{Facebook}} campaign to get her to host the long-running sketch show ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' during Season 35. The campaign was a big hit, and Lorne Michaels brought her on the show, making White the oldest host in the show's history at age 88 and a half (and beat out the only non-celebrity host — Miskel Spillman, who was 80 at the time, helmed the 1977 Christmas show after winning the "Anyone Can Host" contest in Season 3). She also had numerous high-profile guest appearances, like a recurring professor on ''Series/{{Community}}'', and received the Screen Actors Guild's Life Achievement Award in 2010. She contributed to TVLand's NetworkDecay by starring in ''HotInCleveland'', although that's hardly a bad thing. In 2012, she began hosting a new prank show on NBC, ''Betty White's Off Their Rockers'', featuring old people pranking youngsters.

The grand dame of American TV comedy, Betty White is currently 91 years young and has been at work in the entertainment industry since 1939, when she began her career on the radio. She then got in on the ground floor of the newfangled medium of television, with her first IMDb credit for TV dating to 1949. By 1953, she had her first starring role (the sitcom ''LifeWithElizabeth''). First nominated for an Emmy in 1951, she was nominated a further 19 times and so far has won seven times.

* BitingTheHandHumor: When she hosted on ''{{SNL}}'' (which, really, is a [[SelfDeprecation trademark gag on SNL nowadays]]), she mentioned that her first TV show was broadcast live, because they didn't know how to record TV yet. She's not sure what their excuse at ''SNL'' is[[note]]''SNL'''s excuse for doing their show live is because they want the comedy and memorable moments to be unexpected[[/note]]

* FriendToAllLivingThings: Her love of animals is well-known.

* RacistGrandma: In ''{{Everwood}}'', among other places, though that specific example was only latently racist.