BETTY STEALS THE SHOW

If that was a feel-good moment, what do you call the sublime appearance of 96-year-old White, honoured for 80 years in television?

The star of Golden Girls and The Mary Tyler Moore Show got such a huge ovation from the crowd that she quipped: “I’m just gonna quit while I’m ahead.”

“It’s incredible,” White said, “that you can stay in a career this long and still have people put up with you. I wish they did that at home.”

And she showed she wasn’t above — or beyond — a racy joke: “I want to thank Lorne Michaels for everything he’s done with me. I mean, for me,” she said of the Saturday Night Live creator and producer of the evening’s telecast.