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It’s officially official, for realz:

88-year-old TV icon Betty White will become SNL’s all-time oldest host on May 8, Lorne Michaels tells USA Today.

White will be billed as the solo host—encouraged to perform in as much of the show as she wants—but Michaels has assembled a dream team of former female cast members to pitch in.

Rachel Dratch, Ana Gasteyer, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Maya Rudolph, and Molly Shannon will reunite as second-string guest stars for the Mother’s Day episode. (All but Dratch and White are mothers.)

The announcement spells victory for a Facebook campaign that began in January, quickly becoming an Internet and media sensation. The group Betty White to Host SNL (please?)! currently has 489,535 fans—or about 200,000 more than SNL’s own Facebook page.

“[Betty White] is the mother of us all in comedy,” Michaels says, “so it will be a celebration of Betty White.”

It will also be a celebration of a huge Nielsen rating. This is one not to miss.

Video proof that Betty White still brings the funny, after the jump…

These talk show hosts and their horseplay…

Last night on Late Night, Jimmy Fallon took a fall—smashing a martini glass and cutting his hand in several places—while racing Chelsea Handler around his studio.

The scene was reminiscent of a similar stunt that halted a Conan O’Brien taping in September, landing O’Brien in the hospital with a concussion. In Jimmy’s case, the show went on.

Backstage after the show, Jimmy Tweeted “No guts, no glory,” sharing the accompanying photo.

In his first TV appearance since the comedy version of The Tonight Show came to a premature end, Andy Richter was refreshingly candid discussing the ordeal with Kelly Ripa on Monday.

Asked if he harbors ill-feelings toward NBC or Jay Leno, Andy replied, “Yes, yes I do. Why wouldn’t I? I’d be some sort of self-hater.”

He continued: “It’s very frustrating when somebody says—and especially when they’re on videotape—saying, ‘I’m going to take this number one show and hand it over and hope that the next guy gets to make it a number one show.’ And then doesn’t.”

Andy should have known, In the Year 3000… Jay Leno will still be hosting the 11:35 show on NBC.

Read more and watch the video after the jump…

Jude Law and Bill Hader share a “moment.”

And for old time’s sake, has it really been five years since this happened…

In 2003, Amy Poehler and her Upright Citizens Brigade cohorts—Matt Besser, Ian Roberts, and Matt Walsh—filmed their first full-length improvised movie. Seven years later, Wild Girls Gone is finally available for download from iTunes…

The premise: Sheriff Terry Moran (Walsh) is running for Mayor in the Spring Break capital of White Sands, Florida. He plans to win the elderly vote by outlawing the town’s world-famous “Ass Contests.” That plan doesn’t jibe with his wife (Poehler)—a former Ass Contest Queen.

Improvised hilarity ensues.

The comedy also features former SNLers David Koechner and Rob Riggle.

Check out the trailer after the jump…

Chris Parnell and Andy Samberg reunited on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon last night for the first-ever live performance of “Lazy Sunday”—the 2005 SNL Digital Short that put Samberg and Digital Shorts on the map.

Fallon’s house band, The Roots, supplied a medley of old-school hip hop beats.

Ah, Facebook: Good for stalking exes, “poke”-ing co-workers, and now, booking Betty White on Saturday Night Live.

An online movement to have the Golden Girl host SNL may have paid off. Five weeks and half a million Facebook supporters later, White tells People, “Yes,” she will appear on the show.

“I don’t know why or how,” she says, “but it’s been wonderful.”

When will it air? Will she host or just drop by? Have they stocked the dressing room with Snickers?

People either neglected to ask a follow-up or Betty took a nap, because that’s all we’ve got right now.

Congrats, Facebook. Now get to work on Andy Griffith.

Expectations were high amongst comedy nerds last weekend. For the first time this season, SNL bestowed hosting duties upon an actual comedian—the subversive and unpredictable Zach Galifianakis.

The result was an offering that didn’t veer far from conventions, but did provide a handful of satisfyingly weird moments.

Let’s roll the clips…

President Obama Health Care Cold Open

…now if Will Ferrell, Darrell Hammond, Dana Carvey, Dan Aykroyd, Jim Carrey, and Chevy Chase had dropped by, then we would have had something.

Zach Galifianakis Monologue

This was easily the best monologue of the season. Zach talks and plays piano. No gimmicks. Very funny.

More videos from Saturday’s show after the jump…

Are you a fan of SNL? How about panel discussions?

Then boy are you going to like, be ambivalent about, or hate this…

Last Tuesday, Seth Meyers and Lorne Michaels made their way from Rockefeller Center to the W Hotel in Union Square for an all-things-SNL chat.

The informal Q-&-A, moderated by Ken Auletta, was co-sponsored by the Newhouse School and The New Yorker.

Is retirement on Lorne’s radar? Why is on-air improv forbidden? And, most importantly, WTF was NBC thinking with Leno?

Listen and learn.

Audio: Lorne Michaels and Seth Meyers – The New Yorker

Funny or Die, the comedy website founded by Will Ferrell and Adam McKay, scored the pop culture coup of last week with a reunion of SNL’s most famous presidential impersonators.

Ron Howard directed the instant viral hit—a nearly six-minute long dream sequence in which Fred Armisen and Maya Rudolph, as the Obamas, are visited by Ferrell as George W. Bush, Darrell Hammond as Bill Clinton, Dana Carvey as George Bush Sr., Dan Aykroyd as Jimmy Carter, and Chevy Chase as Gerald Ford.

Also, the white guy from In Living Color popped up as Ronald Reagan.

How the s**t did this come together? The New York Times has the scoop.

Funny or Die also released a behind-the-scenes look at the video as well as an extended scene with Carvey riffing as Bush.

More videos after the jump…