As most fans of Saturday Night Live are well aware, the cast and crew actually perform two shows for each episode: There’s the version that makes it to the air, and a dress rehearsal that serves as a test run for the cast, which also allows Lorne Michaels to cut any sketches that don’t get big laughs from the studio audience — except, of course, for “Fart Face.”
On the most recent episode of The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast, Meyers recalled that the most successful dress rehearsal he ever witnessed during his tenure at the show starred a host who was older than frozen food: Betty White.
White hosted the Mother’s Day weekend show back in 2010, after a grassroots Facebook campaign called “Betty White to Host SNL (Please?)!” went viral. It’s not that the show had never asked her (she had previously rejected three invitations…
