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Betty White fans, your prayers have been answered. The former Golden Girl will appear on “Saturday Night Live” in the near future, she confirmed to PEOPLE at Elton John’s annual Oscars viewing party on Sunday night.

Fans have been clamoring for White, 88, to do “SNL” — an idea she called “ridiculous” just a few weeks ago — ever since her comic turn in a Snickers ad during the Super Bowl. One Facebook page devoted to the cause has attracted half a million fans.

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Her ad for Snickers, which debuted during the Super Bowl, was one of the most popular to air. (It’s also gone viral.) She often pops up as a late-night talk show guest. There’s also a movement afoot to have her host “Saturday Night Live.”

White’s mix of grandmotherly sweetness and comic brazenness (note her turn as a foul-mouthed widow who likes to feed the alligators in the 1999 horror film “Lake Placid”) has made her a beloved figure to fans of all ages.

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(CNN) — Magnanimous in defeat, which could turn into victory, Conan O’Brien bequeathed “The Tonight Show” back to Jay Leno Friday after first thanking NBC for at least putting him on the map.

“This company has been my home for most of my adult life,” he told viewers. “I am enormously proud of the work we’ve done together. I want to thank NBC for making it all possible. I really do.”

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PEOPLE.com) — After an ugly shakeup at NBC over the late-night lineup, Conan O’Brien hosted the “Tonight Show” for the last time Friday.

“We’ve a had a lot of fun being here these last seven months, but like everything in life, the fun has to come to an end a decade too early,” the comedian joked during his opening monologue. “As I set off for exciting new career opportunities, I just want to make one thing clear to everyone listening out there: I will do nudity.”

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NEW YORK – Grim-faced celebrities and musicians with mournful tunes set the tone for the all-star, international “Hope for Haiti Now” telethon, which featured two hours of desperate pleas for an even more-desperate nation. But it ended on a hopeful note, with a buoyant call for Haiti’s revival by native son, Wyclef Jean.

“Enough of this moping man, let’s rebuild Haiti, let’s show ‘em how we do it where we come from!” Jean shouted after singing the slow song “Rivers of Babylon,” with a Haitian flag around his neck.

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NEW YORK – NBC said Thursday it has reached a $45 million deal with Conan O’Brien for his exit from the “Tonight Show,” allowing Jay Leno to return to the late-night program he hosted for 17 years.

Under the deal, which came less than eight months after O’Brien took the reins from Leno, O’Brien will get more than $33 million, NBC said. The rest will go to his 200-strong staff in severance.

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PASADENA, Calif. – Conan O’Brien’s ratings are soaring as he nears a bitter exit from NBC’s “Tonight Show,” his ridicule of his network executives apparently resonating in a country filled with the unemployed.

His ratings Friday were 50 percent higher than they’ve been this season, and he beat CBS’ David Letterman, according to a preliminary Nielsen Co. estimate based on large markets. In the 18- to 49-year-old demographic that NBC relies on to set advertising prices, O’Brien even beat Jay Leno’s prime-time show.

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(PEOPLE.com) — Late-night TV can usually be counted on for a steady diet of jokes. Now it is the joke.

David Letterman joined in the skirmish Tuesday by making jokes about NBC’s late-night host shuffle on the “Late Show,” according to a transcript of his opening monologue.

NBC vowed Sunday to push Conan O’Brien and the “Tonight Show” back to 12:05 a.m. to make room for “The Jay Leno Show” at 11:35 p.m.

O’Brien balked at the idea, saying he refused to take part in the “destruction” of the “Tonight Show” brand and blasted the network for trying to patch up its ratings problems in prime-time by toying with its late-night lineup.

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(CNN) — Conan O’Brien suggested in a statement Tuesday that he will not accept NBC’s proposal to move him and “The Tonight Show,” which he’s hosted for seven months, to 12:05 a.m. ET.

NBC has proposed moving “The Tonight Show” from its traditional 11:35 p.m. slot so that the show’s former host, Jay Leno, could host a half-hour show then.

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PASADENA, Calif. – NBC said Sunday it decided to pull the plug on the Jay Leno experiment when some affiliate stations considered dropping the nightly prime-time show, and the network is waiting to hear if Leno and “Tonight” host Conan O’Brien accept its new late-night TV plans.

NBC Universal Television Entertainment Chairman Jeff Gaspin said that “The Jay Leno Show” at 10 p.m. EST will end with the Feb. 12 beginning of the Winter Olympics,