It looks like Kathie Lee Gifford can finally laugh about her hubby’s cheating ways.
The “Today” show co-host mocked Frank Gifford’s infamous philandering Tuesday during a discussion of new claims that he had an affair with Johnny Carson’s wife in the 1970s.
Kathie Lee told co-host Hoda Kotb that such a tryst would be right out of the ex-Giant’s playbook.
“No, it’s not true, that particular one,” she joked about the Carson claims. “Although we all know what the man is capable of.”
Kathie Lee was referring to a 1997 sex scandal in which the legendary New York Giant was caught on videotape fooling around behind her back with a flight attendant.
Kathie Lee jokingly said she grilled him about a new report that he had an affair with Carson’s wife, Joanne — long before Kathie Lee was married to Frank.
“Tell me, it was a long time ago. Did you have an affair with her?” Kathie Lee said she asked Frank. “He goes, ‘I can’t remember! Maybe!’ ”
Kathie Lee was more serious later, when reached by The Post at her Greenwich, Conn., home.
“It’s not true. It was a long time ago and it never happened,” she said.
Frank, a Pro Football Hall of Famer and former “Monday Night Football” TV announcer, has been accused in a new book written by Johnny’s former attorney Henry Bushkin of secretly bedding Carson’s wife.
Bushkin, 70, claims he and Johnny broke into Joanne’s Manhattan pied-à-terre in 1970 because the moody funny man suspected his spouse was fooling around with Frank.
They found numerous pictures of the football legend, convincing Johnny he was being cuckolded, Bushkin claims.
“Carson leaned against the living-room wall and began to weep,” he wrote.
Joanne, too, denied an affair to The Post on Monday.
Tuesday, however, Margaret Davies, who claims she was Joanne’s ex-secretary, said Joanne tried to force her to swear that Joanne wasn’t having an affair with the married Gifford — and fired Davies when she refused to play ball, Davies told The Post.
“Joanne was a manipulative twit, she is a liar. She asked me to sign a legal document saying she never had an affair with Gifford and [that] it was my apartment, and I refused, so she stopped using me as her secretary,” fumed Davies, 66. “She was a liar with brass balls.
“I lived in that apartment for six months, and paid her rent, but it was never my apartment, and I only lived there after Johnny Carson found out about the Frank Gifford affair,” Davies said.
Joanne Carson said Tuesday she was dumbfounded by Davies’ charges, saying she had never even heard of Davies and that the accusations were lies.
“Oh, please. Margaret Davies? She never worked for me. This is ludicrous and it’s not true, and if it continues, she’s going to have a libel suit,” Joanne told The Post.
Additional reporting by Bob Fredericks