It's safe to say that Betty White is probably the funniest woman in comedy right now—especially of the octogenarian set. But can Ellen DeGeneres make her laugh? Today on Ellen, White's stoicism gets put to the test.

It's official: Betty White will appear on SNL. Details are sketchy, but the internet won!

Betty White, beloved old lady of the moment, might be hosting Saturday Night Live, as fans have been clamoring for, just not by herself. It might be with a team of comediennes. Some folks don't like this idea. Really guys?

50 Cent continues to earn the "actor" part of his "rapper-actor" moniker. The Hurt Locker wins a bunch of non-Oscar awards. Shutter Island wins the weekend. Betty White might host SNL. The Roundup cares about hockey. Do you?

The blood of a thousand PR assistants runs through the streets after a frightful error leaves Wintour in the cold. Elin debates attending Tiger's press conference. Gabourey Sibide is so over Vanity Fair's all-white Young Hollywood issue. Thursday gossip ahoy!

In honor of Betty White's "moment," we bring you this story of how aspiring comedienne Julia Wolov used a night of imagined passion with the former Golden Girl to open the doors of Hollywood.

Remember that awesome Snickers commercial, starring Betty White and Abe Vigoda, that aired during the Super Bowl? Well, a new one—featuring Aretha Franklin and Liza Minnelli—is about to be rolled out. And it's good. Really good! Video, inside.

Betty White, 88, is having a moment. She has movie roles, a Facebook campaign, and a popular ad when most actresses her age only have cataracts. Why do we support this comeback? Because it is free of irony and nostalgia.

While you were busy consuming your weight in nachos, we were busy rounding up the most memorable commercials of the night, for better or worse. And you know what we noticed? We'd seen all of them before.

Betty White, grandmother to the world, lit up The Insider tonight as a guest panelist. White chimed in on John Edwards and Tiger Woods, identified half-naked men by their abs, fist pumped and even tore Kanye West a new one.

Betty White came on George Lopez's show and stunned the audience by calling herself "a whore," making references to her sagging breasts, and talking about her desires for Robert Redford. 88-year-old Betty White— this is why we love you.

It's time to trudge back to work—sticky with champagne, coughing up confetti—now that New Year's is over. "Work" for some of us means awards season, this morning marking the beginning of the real full-court press coverage. What's new:

Today at Gawker.TV, Betty White's a party animal, Little Chocolatiers has no business being on TV, Operation Repo highlights ways to get out of car repossession, Julian Casablancas gets down on Late Night, the best of Jimmy Kimmel's unnecessary censorship.

Betty White, a regular on The Late, Late Show With Craig Ferguson, came on last night dressed as Santa Claus. What came out of her mouth, however, was not so PG-rated. Ganja-talk, parties, and euphemisms to male anatomy? Oh my!

• July 1, 2011. This will be the date when the world sees Peter Berg's Battleship film, inspired by the Hasbro plastic peg board game. [Variety]

Stephanie Pratt's wallet could use a little help. Elton John's too old for kids. And Colin Farrell knocked up his girl. That and much, much more in your Tuesday morning gossip roundup!

More Carrie Prejean topless photos have emerged, real topless photos, Bob Barker and Betty White are about to kill each other over an elephant, and Nick Cannon is sick of Eminem talking about Mariah.

Golden Girls star Bea Arthur, née Bernice Frankel, died at home in Los Angeles at the age of 86 today. She passed away surrounded by family members. She will be loudly mourned by the gays.

Are we sick of Sarah Palin jokes yet? Yes—yes we do believe we are, yet not since Brokeback Mountain has a single cultural phenomenon offered comedy writers (and ankle-shackled galley bloggers) such a bounty of low-hanging fruit.And—much like the gay-cowboy motif into its third month of YouTube mashups—just when you think you've snorted out your last nose-chuckle at the congenial flautist's antics, along comes one more to tickle your funny places. We offer as evidence the recent (OK, fine, it ran a week ago, but we're having trouble staying up past 9 p.m. lately) appearance of Betty White on Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, in which she affected the guise of a speech writer for superannuated candidate John McCain. The money shot, of course, is her succinct assessment of his running mate—"That is one crazy bitch!"—before segueing into a lip-smacking meditation on the Democratic challenger that almost makes us wonder if the former Golden Girl hasn't been lingering in the far corners of Craigslist lately.

· Who can turn the world on with her adorable The Mary Tyler Moore Show set remembrances on Oprah today? Betty White, that's who! [Oprah]
· The C&Ds are flying fast and furious with these photos of Bruno ambushing fellow Austrian Gov. Schwarzenegger, but /Film seems to still have them up as of post time. [/Film]
· David Archuleta's voice coach explains for Utah's Fox news affiliate how the show's producers have systematically rigged it so that David Cook would trample the little shaved-koala's skull in the voting. Also, disconcertingly bedentured producer Nigel Lythgoe told Ryan Seacrest that the "biggest star in the world" would be performing on the finale. OMG! Jesus! We hope he takes the wheel! (Lolz.) [MyFoxUtah, mjsbigblog.com]
· Didn't spend the heat wave on a beach with Jake and Reese, but wish you had? Now you can! [celebrity-gossip.net]
· Loni Anderson married Bob Fleck, a folk singer who would never get any WKRP airplay, in Bel Air yesterday. [AP]