lovely lady and incredible person. back with us is co-creator of the daily show. liz, going through her biography, it s hard to over state what she s accomplished. she was approached to be one of the first hosts of the today show back in the 60s. barbara walters got that job instead. she was one of the first women to produce a television show called itself in 1954. a long time ago. she wanted to initially be a forest ranger but women weren t allowed to be a forest ranger back then. they weren t allowed to be actors. she had an emotional speech and said her parents would be more proud of this then any other award i ve won, also a today show anchor, a producer of one
betty white is dead at the age of 99. we are celebrating her life. liz, i got a few quotes that i think are great. i would love to read to you. one of them is, if one has no sense of humor, one is in trouble. that s true. get at least eight hours of beauty sleep. nine if you are ugly. i have no regrets at all. i m the luckiest old broad on two feet. what have you not done in the business that you have always wanted do is, robert redford. on that i agree. especially robert redford. it s showing how much of a news geek i am. gosh, it s so hard to sum her up. it s so hard to encapsulate this incredible life, to celebrate it in such a small medium that we have right now, this cable news
be in charge of a television network that has the ability to air a betty white rerun, maybe a golden girls rerun, although those are probably out there every day. when you re looking back, what is the show? what is the clip that you want to that you re going to turn to first after you get finished talking to me? do we have dean? hello? see, if i was betty white i d have something funny to say to that. i don t think we have dean. do we have liz? liz, you re here with me. liz, you d never leave me. when you get finished talking to me, when i finish holding you captive here, what are you going to turn to? i m going to turn to the mary tyler moore show because it was so formative for me growing up in minnesota and
1:00 in the morning, if you re 50 or 60. she was 88. when i worked at snl the host, it was late night after late night, not just saturday night she had the energy to carry a show and tina and amy poehler were part of her 90th celebration for her birthday and how she inspired them and inspired countless other women from the golden girls to mary tyler moore and what i love, when you look back at her life, she was game for anything. liz was saying, you see her on game shows, late night talk shows having things thrown at her. she didn t care. she cared about the laughs. she didn t care about keeping a certain image you wanted. she was there to make people laugh and bring joy to americans. i hope people, that s what they take away, 99 god bless you. listen, i m 38 and i can t stay up until 1:00 on any given night. it might be because i have