The title of New York’s Funniest Reporter will be handed out Thursday at Gotham Comedy Club to The Post’s Robert George — or to one of the other seven performers, including Ellis Henican of Fox News, Wendy Diamond of Ani mal Fair magazine and Mar laina Schiavo of CNN. George will tell the crowd: “West Virginia Democratic Sen. Bob Byrd passed re cently. Shouldn’t be too sur prised: Not only was he 92, the former KKK member was known to say in his younger days, ‘I’ll die if a black man ever becomes president!’ “