Caustic Couric spared Kotb

HODA Kotb is interviewing Katie Couric about her bombshell memoir on NBC’s “Today” show, and she has yet to read the tome.

But a friend of Kotb’s did a quick read of Couric’s “Going There” and assured Kotb that no shade was thrown her way ahead of the upcoming sit-down.

The book has ruffled so many feathers in the TV news world that Couric has been banned from plugging it on CBS. She’ll talk to Kotb and Savannah Guthrie on Oct. 19 in the same “Today” studio where she once hosted the NBC show herself.

“I haven’t read Katie’s book yet; I’ve only heard about some of the excerpts,” Kotb exclusively told us Wednesday at Derek Jeter’s Turn 2 Foundation gala. “But I do know someone who read the book, and they said overall that that [scorched-earth] tone is not really the vibe of it — but I was not mentioned . . . So, she’s going to be on the show.”

In her book, Couric slams Diane Sawyer, Deborah Norville and her onetime employer CBS, among others. We reported that the former “Today” and “CBS Evening News” anchor had been booked to promote her bombshell memoir on “CBS This Morning” with Gayle King — until CBS News brass and producers read it.

A TV source previously told us of Couric’s impending “Today” interview, “With all the fuss surrounding the book, it will be interesting to hear from Katie herself on TV.”

It’s possible Kotb hasn’t read her former colleague’s book yet because she’s been busy preparing for one of the “Today” show’s favorite holidays: Halloween.

“I only have fun when I dress in an absurd, crazy way. I never have fun when I . . . sexy up [for Halloween],” she told us. “I can just dress like a cow and dance and have fun. That would be my kind of Halloween.”

Also at the Turn 2 Foundation shindig were Tiki Barber, CC Sabathia, NBA commissioner Adam Silver and Joe Torre.