Don't you have to be funny to be a comedian?
No. Not at all. That Joy Behar woman claims to be a comedian, but nobody has ever heard her say anything 'funny'. She is a vicious political activist for the Left, as are most of the people claiming to be a comedian today.
Look at any of the Late Night shows, or anything on Comedy Central. Those people aren't 'funny'. They're stupid. And all they do for a living is political commentary against Trump.
How they stay on the air is a mystery. After the one million mark in depredating Trump jokes, I would think people would have had enough. Yeah, yeah, yeah..., Trump is stupid, Trump is a Nazi, Trump is this or that or whatever. I get it already. What else have you got?
That's not funny. It's just stupid.
No. In today's world a comedian does not have to be funny. Somehow what used to be comedy has shifted into vicious political commentary. All you have to be is a devout Leftist, and crazy anti-Trump. In the Leftist bubble world, that qualifies as being a 'comedian'. Being funny has nothing to do with it anymore.