by Shannonn Kelly
04:14AM, Sunday May 09, 2010

The West-coast feed of SNL ended 10 minutes ago and I’m still chuckling. Betty White hosting ‘Saturday Night Live‘ was hands down worth the wait.

White got to SNL after David Mathews got 511,438 FaceBook fans to beg and plead to get her on after her saucy turn in a SuperBowl Snickers commercial with Abe Vigoda. White thanked Facebook during her opening monologue.

“When I first heard about the campaign to get me to host ‘Saturday Night Live,’ I didn’t know what Facebook was,” said White. “In our day we had a ‘PhoneBook’, but no one wasted an afternoon on it…”.

SNL was promoted as  a special Mother’s Day show, with a decidedly feminine skewed sketch line-up with extra help from female alums such as Rachel Dratch, Maya Rudolph, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Ana Gasteyer and Molly Shannon who, except for Dratch are all mothers.

From McGruber’s well-meaning but castrating grandmother to Anna Gasteyer and Molly Shannon’s “muffin queen’ Florence Dusty on an installment of their NPR nod, the ‘Delicious Dish, to David Caruso’s crime investigator – Aunt in a CSI spin-off, 88 1/2 year-old Betty White took the SNL cast to Comedy School and showed them what happens to a punch line when you have 60 years in the business to draw on.

The laughs were too numerous to mention but some of the lines were instant classics, such as White as a prison home girl spewing the line “The Wonderful Wizard of Ass” or As Florence Dusty – “My muffin hasn’t had a cherry since 1939″

Tonight on SNL, Betty White was in a word – “Golden“…