I loved Bill Bailey’s response to Alanis Morrisette’s song Ironic.
It’s not ironic. It’s just bad luck.
The only way rain on your wedding day is ironic is if your fiancé is a weatherman and he chose the day.
Superb.
It’s not ironic. It’s just bad luck.
The only way rain on your wedding day is ironic is if your fiancé is a weatherman and he chose the day.
Superb.
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Bill needs to read a definition on irony.
😜
"Wow that's ironic."
No, it's not. It's coincidental.
(Especially true in U.S.)
Scrutinizing if some of it is truly the definition of ironic or not
All the song does is try to list off ironic happenings.
Was probably considering ridiculous ones like "it's when you crush a frog and a big ass frog then crushes you!"
The guy who was afraid to fly and died in his first flight is pretty ironic
Irony: when the actual meaning and the literal meaning are the exact opposite.
": incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected result".
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/irony
It's a free ri-i-i-ide where the word "free" is not used for its literal intention
It's the good adviiiiiice that is actually bad
And this is why definitions maaattterrrrrr
https://youtu.be/32LCwZFoKio?si=aFYr0NAir4lvJITV
Turned 98
Won the lottery
Died the next day.
That's just unfortunate.
It's like 10,000 spoons
When all you need is a knife.
Well try looking in the knife drawer, not the one labeled "Spoons", K?
https://youtu.be/nT1TVSTkAXg?si=9YNMNGCIM5EgmD42
(Or are you doing some deep cut irony by deliberately getting the name of the comedian who did 10 minutes explaining that the most ironic thing about the song “ironic” is the singer has no idea what ironic means?)
https://youtu.be/nT1TVSTkAXg?si=IqMC5M0VaJB62qN0
I do not don’t think it isn’t ironic.
Which was ironic, given I was standing at a bus stop at the time.
On the other, how many throw-away pop songs are we still talking about 30 years after they charted?
-Mike Duncan
Also excellent
“That’s not irony.. that’s just bad luck”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT1TVSTkAXg&ab_channel=SmegHead
Doesn’t scan quite as well
🧢
https://youtu.be/HO7xj0FTWqE?si=JGYFs5ioeV0N5f9E
Baldrick, have you no idea what "irony" is?
Baldrick:
Yes, it's like "goldy" and "bronzy" only it's made out of iron.
https://www.quotes.net/mquote/687776
Not figuratively.
He had never flown in a plane in his life.
He decided, on the day of his retirement, he would take a joy flight.
In mid flight, the engine failed, and as the plane crashed down,
He thought, "Well that's nice."
Alanis Morissette wrote a whole song about things people talk about being ironic, but aren't.
...which is ironic.
I choose to believe she's a genius.