Betty White talks about being on “SNL”

“All of a sudden people would tell me that they saw the Facebook thing and all these people had joined in. I couldn’t believe it,” Betty says. “At first I thought they were putting me on. It came out of left field. I was astounded. I told my agent to say, ‘Thank you, I appreciate it, but no thank you.’ He said, ‘You have to do it. If you don’t do it, I will divorce you.’ I love my agent, so I am doing it.”

Betty will be joined by “SNL” alumni Tina Fey, Amy Poehler and Molly Shannon, and Jay-Z will be the music guest.

And she is pumped by the company, but Betty says she does have a veto power if there is something she really doesn’t want to do.

She jokes, “They promised me I wouldn’t have to do any nudity.” But on the more serious side, she says, “I won’t do dope jokes. I don’t think dope is a joke. That is about the only no.”

Betty is no stranger to live television. It is where she began her career. She recalls doing five-and-a-half hours six days a week when she began her career, so she loves live television, but she does appreciate that things can go wrong.

“I was doing a song on ‘The Jack Paar Show’ and all of a sudden I lost the lyrics,” she recalls. “It was a song I knew so well, ‘When I Fall in Love.’ I don’t know what happened. I sang something. I made up lyrics as I went along. That was sheer panic, and I have a feeling it is the same kind of panic I may feel when I do ‘Saturday Night Live.’”