If you live long enough, you get the last laugh.
I just made that up.
Or maybe I heard it someplace and I don’t remember—-which is definitely possible.
Either way, it suits what I want to say— which is a salute to Betty White —soon to be host of Saturday Night Live—-and longtime resident of Carmel.
I’ve never seen her around town; but I thought of her yesterday when I was sitting with a friend in a coffee shop. At the next table were two men and a woman, talking and laughing so hard tears were rolling down their cheeks. I couldn’t help looking over—not because they were annoying, but they were having so much fun, I wanted in on the joke.
Finally they got up—two with their canes and one with a walker, still laughing as they shuffled out the door.
I thought to myself— that is exactly who I want to be fifty years forty years MANY years from now.
If you live long enough, you get the last laugh.
Did I already say that?
love the image of these friends enjoying each other. Thanks for sharing.
I love Betty White. I didn’t know she lived in Carmel!
I’ve had the pleasure of seeing (eavesdropping) on Betty twice! She is as pleasant and adorable as you would think.
As far as the laughing goes…what ARE we waiting for, anyway?
That’s why I started writing and performing comedy several years ago. I’d rather laugh at the things life is throwing my way than cry!
Wonderful, I love to see older “teenagers” laughing, holding hands, etc. As far as Betty White, she is my heroine. Didn’t know she was a Carmel resident!
Did you hear what our mutual friend George said about her in response to her hilarous/touching acceptance speech for her Lifetime Achievement at the SAG awards?
Have a great weekend,
Eleonora
Thank u, I loved it too. Made my day.
I didn’t know either till I read a piece in the local paper about the campaign for her to host SNL. Or maybe I did know it—and I forgot!
Laughing–always the best. And you’ll have to tell me where Betty hangs out locally, so I can start stalking her.
Totally agree–I have some hilarious cancer stories—helped me realize that finding something funny is always the BEST thing at the worst times.
I’ve always loved seeing old people, too–being romantic and joyous—hope someday someone looks at me like that—only not too soon!
Will have to look up and find out what George said about her. He probably said something very clever and endearing—and so probably now Betty White is joining the rest of us on his list.
I know it’s shocking that I would miss anything uttered publicly by George Clooney—but apparently I missed the exchange between him and Betty White that Eleonora mentioned.
http://www.popeater.com/2010/01/24/betty-white-sag-speech-george-clooney/
I guess this means she’s ahead of the rest of us in line.
This is wonderful news. I did not know what happened to her or what she was doing. As I get older I try to find anyone older than me and talk to them. Yesterday I was on a train and in the club car had a coffee talking to a 87 year old Italian woman who said she was waiting to go back to Italy and will as soon as that ‘psychopathic dwarf’ stops running and ruining my country. We both laughed for a long time.
Betty White is a national treasure. May she, as did another national treasure, George Burns, laugh on and on to the very end … and we along with her. We should all laugh as long as we can breathe … or maybe breathe as long as we can laugh. As for that 87 year old Italian woman waiting to return to La Bell’Italia, I am not going to wait until the “psychopathic dwarf” is gone from public office (and in jail where he belongs) to return home because even a bad political joke is not bad enough to ruin that country … or interfere with our enjoyment of La Dolce Vita. After their failed experiment with a strong central government run by a tin-pot despot in the 1930s and 40’s, Italians created an unmanageable system of government that makes it impossible for any one person to ever again hold enough power to threaten that ancient culture. P.S. Don’t try this at home. It will only work in Italy.
Well maybe over there in England, you’ve been too busy talking to strangers on trains—and you haven’t heard that right now Betty White has the hottest career in Hollywood. If you live long enough, you get the last laugh. My new slogan.
I think I need Eleonora to fill me in more about this psychopathic dwarf running Italy. Although somehow that fits–it wouldn’t be Italy without a little drama.
His name is Silvio Berlusconi. He was the competition in my earliest days over there. He bought out the network we were mentoring, thus winning that confrontation. Went to his head.