It’s official: Betty White Rules! America’s Sweetheart just helped one of television’s longest-running series earn its highest ratings in a year and a half.
The 88-and-a-half-year-old comedy icon is winning rave reviews after her momentous hosting debut on NBC’s Saturday Night Live this weekend.
America tuned in big numbers for the Mother’s Day special — which featured the one-night-only return of SNL alumnae Molly Shannon, Amy Poehler, Maya Rudolph, Tina Fey, Rachel Dratch, and Ana Gasteyer and saw the Golden Girls star poking fun at her age, Facebook, and sex.
The broadcast averaged an 8.8 household rating/21, the show’s highest ratings in 18 months, according to Deadline Hollywood.
It is the highest rating for SNL since the eve of the 2008 presidential election — when Arizona Senator John McCain appeared as a special guest and comedienne Tina Fey turned in a side-splitting impression of his controversial running mate, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin.
