80 Is The New 30

Hopefully, everyone saw Betty White's hosting stint on Saturday Night Live last weekend. If you didn't, go watch it on Hulu immediately. She (with the help of some of the recent great SNL ladies including Tina Fey, Molly Shannon, and my gal Amy Poehler) totally rocked it. It was one of the funniest episodes of SNL I've seen in a while. At the tender age of 88 (and 1/2), Betty proved to all the disaffected teens out there that old folks aren't to be laughed at; they're to be laughed with. Unless they fall down, and then you shouldn't be laughing at all, jerks.

And now there's another oldster causing a sensation across the pond—and here, thanks to the InterTubes. Janey Cutler, 81, is being hailed as the "new Susan Boyle" after her appearance on Britain's Got Talent, where she wowed the judges and received a standing ovation. (Click the link to see the video; embedding has been disabled. *sad trombone*) Of course, the boobs on The Early Show made fun of her thick Scottish accent and apparent hearing problems when they interviewed her yesterday. So maybe I shouldn't be wagging my finger at the disaffected youth of America, but our moronic, superficial talking heads instead.

Old people are the best. Well, most of them. I have an issue right now with the Young@Heart Chorus. I just checked their tour dates and they're all in New England, New York, and even one date in Canada. Why can't they roll their old bones down to Pittsburgh?? I've been dying to see them for years!

Related: What A Drag It Ain't Gettin' Old