I loved Betty White on this weekend’s Saturday Night Live, but I was worried about her. They had her standing and dancing so much! And she was in so many skits, and had to do so many costume changes. I was worried they were going to exhaust her. Turns out, Betty is a total pro, and she’s perfectly capable of partying with the young’uns until 3 a.m. So says Life & Style Magazine, who clocked Betty’s post-SNL activities. Betty went out with the SNL cast members and stayed out until 3 a.m. And then our beloved Dusty Muffin caught her flight back to LA at 6 a.m. Sunday morning. Betty is a goddess.

She may be 88 1/2 years old, but don’t say Betty White doesn’t know how to party. An eyewitness tells Life & Style that the former Golden Girl was getting down at the May 8 Saturday Night Live afterparty at Docks in NYC on Saturday until 3 a.m.! “She had no problem keeping up with the youngsters,” the eyewitness tells Life & Style.

And it was clear that the SNL cast members loved having Betty host. “She got a standing ovation when she arrived at the party a little before 2 a.m. In 10 years of working on the show, I’ve never seen that before,” says the eyewitness. Helping Betty celebrate were SNL cast member Andy Samberg and Matthew Broderick.

While Betty stuck to drinking water at the party, she did have one request while she was rehearsing the night before: a stiff, chilled vodka! As for any other divalike demands, Betty tells Life & Style that doing the show was work enough: “Special requests? Who could even think of that? I was just so focused on what I had to do. I had to learn how to read cue cards for tonight!”

While Betty was celebrating until the wee hours of the morning, we know she couldn’t have been out all night: “She had to catch a flight at 6:30 a.m. on Sunday morning!” the eyewitness dishes.

Celebrating wasn’t the only reward for Betty: the ratings for her episode of SNL were the highest in the past 18 months!

[From Life & Style]

A year and a half? That was probably the episode with Sarah Palin’s appearance? Probably. I can’t believe Betty’s appearance didn’t get higher ratings than the Palin one! I also love that the cast gave her a standing ovation – she totally deserved it. She wipes the floor with comedians a third her age, in talent, professionalism, attitude and energy.

By the way, The Bieb loves Betty too. He tweeted “BETTY WHITE RULES.” Thus spoketh The Bieb. Also, SNL released another video, of a sketch that cut because of time. Betty is only in it for a few seconds:

And here’s the Lawrence Welk skit. I didn’t include in yesterday’s post, but I always love when they do these. Kristen Wiig is insane: