When Betty White sent Ryan Reynolds for coffee

Name: When Betty White sent Ryan Reynolds for coffee
Uploaded: 2021-01-19T15:30:01Z
Duration: 3 min 40 s
Description: Between takes on "The Proposal," Betty White and Ryan Reynolds shot a sketch for Funny or Die. She spends most of it treating her co-star like the help.

Between takes on "The Proposal," Betty White and Ryan Reynolds shot a sketch for Funny or Die. She spends most of it treating her co-star like the help. more

Ryan says hi and asks how she's doing. "Uh, Brian," Betty replies. He reminds her that his name is Ryan. She tells him to get her a cup of coffee.

They have been working together for weeks, he points out. Months, really. "Months now, Dan," Betty says. "You've been a terrible assistant that whole time."

Betty White, an older woman with light hair, looks upward beside a wooden window frame. A headline runs in white letters across the lower third. — In the sketch, Betty White treats her co-star like a coffee-fetching assistant.

Ryan's side of the feud is mostly hurt feelings. "She hates me, and I don't really understand why," he says. A rule gets laid down for good: when Betty White says she wants a cup of coffee, you get her a cup of coffee. Then Ryan tells her how it is. She seems like "an adorable sweet old lady on the outside," he says, but inside she is "this seething demon."

To mark Betty's 99th birthday, Ryan posted the old sketches to his Instagram stories. She may be 99, he wrote, but she's 100 percent the funniest person on the planet. More than 50 years younger, he still loses every round.

A young adult male guest and an older female talk show host wearing formal attire, seated on a brown couch with plants in the background. The headline runs in white letters across the lower third. — Between takes on "The Proposal," Betty White and Ryan Reynolds shot a sketch for Funny or Die.

Back when they made them, Ryan told Entertainment Tonight they started with a basic idea and riffed. "They just said, let's bring you all together and let's just shoot a funny video, and we did." The version that got out was the clean one, he added. In the other, Betty is much more nasty: "I think she's like sharpening the bone of some orphan about to stab me with it."

He called her insanely funny, with a knack for blue humor you would never expect from a woman her age. Asked about her birthday, Betty said that as for visitors, she was "feeding the two ducks who come to visit me every day."

An older woman with styled hair, red lipstick and an ornate red outfit smiles broadly near a microphone. A headline runs in white letters across the lower third. — Asked about her 99th birthday, Betty said she was feeding the two ducks who visit her every day.

Ryan's favorite memory is her last day of shooting on "The Proposal." As she walked out the door, the crew gave her a standing ovation, and she raised her hand. "This is the most fun I've ever had," she told them, and they all went, "Oh." Then she added, "Standing up," and walked out of the room, which Ryan said was like she "invented the mic drop before the mic dropped."