70th Emmy Awards: A Celebration for Betty White

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[Music] please welcome alec baldwin and kate mckinnon [Music] the very first Emmy Awards were held at the Hollywood Athletic Club in 1949 only 9% of Americans owned a television at the time but the industry thought we've been on the air for a year we should give ourselves some awards you know there are very few people who were around then that are still working in television today and we are lucky to be joined by one of them tonight the greatest of all time Betty White Betty was nominated for the Emmy 24 times and she won eight and at 96 years old she still thinks about all those Emmys she didn't win and she's still bitter ladies and gentlemen the incomparable Betty White [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] thank you I'm just gonna quit while I'm ahead oh my goodness goodness goodness I just this is this is very exciting I thought I thought the biggest most exciting night I'd ever had I'm talking a Lauren Michaels now was the night that he games okay he gave me but boy you topped yourself tonight at Lord [Applause] you think I'm gonna miss a chance when I get it [Applause] believe me this this it goes back to somebody so he said something the other day about first lady of television and I took it as a as a big compliment and then I heard her talking to her daughter a little later as he said well firstly she's not all she was the first one way way back oh but little did I dream then that I would be here and it's it's it's incredible that I'm still in this business that I'm still and you it's it's incredible that you can you can stay in a in a career this long and still have people put up with you I wish they did that at home i I want to thank Lorne Michaels for doing not only this tonight but all the wonderful things he's done with me and I know for me and all I can say is it's such a blessed business to be in and how lucky can I be and how much I say thank you to each and every one you
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Channel: Television Academy
Views: 1,771,032
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Keywords: 70th emmy awards show, 2018, 70th emmys, comedy, betty white, emmy awards, show, backstage live!
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Length: 5min 1sec (301 seconds)
Published: Tue Sep 18 2018
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