I remember when there was a charity concert and Ed came on straight after Alanis Morisette and did this routine. Obviously there were loads of Alanis fans in the audience which made it ten times better.
This woman made an Alanis version of my humps as a pisstake, and got a cake in the shape of a giant ass in return as a thank you. I think she could? Laugh at this! 😁
To the people who downvoted this and or wrote angry comments: Even if you love Alanis to death, you can still appreciate humor, can't you? And you have to agree that the lyrics to that song were a bit clumsy, right? I mean, using the term wrong is one thing but if you're basing a song lyric and a musical career on it, you should perhaps research it a bit better? I don't have a beef with Alanis but I can't get over those lyrics. And to you people claiming that it was on purpose: Have you looked at the other lyrics on that album? I wouldn't call them crap, but they are certainly not deep. So, assuming that they were all written by her, that's a very implausible theory.
You can not appreciate humor if "You love Alanis to death". I mean, she is definitely a talented musician, but she is, as Ed Byrne said: " *A* *moanin'* *cow* "
What does liking AM has to do with whether she's mistaken or not Is that how it works, I like someone therefore he can make no mistake That's pretty ironi- No it's not
@@sjjr8787 So you're saying being stuck in a traffic jam is "deliberately contrary to what one expects"? How? And remember *deliberately* is an important bit here. It's not just about being unexpected. So being stuck in a traffic jam you didn't expect? Not irony, just bad luck. There has to be some *reason* for why you thought you wouldn't be in a traffic jam and it then happening anyhow - that's irony.
@@voodoo1094 it is deliberately contrary to what one expects because one would be deliberatley expecting to get to work quickly if one is running late. One would drive faster and take every deliberate action necessary to get there as quickly as possible. Therefore a traffic jam popping up out of nowhere would be ironic as it would deliberately contradict the expected outcome. You assume to much in presuming the traffic jam was simply coincidental. Traffic jams in general are not really to be expected other than in major cities suffering from overpopulation. Ironic to have all these people attempting to define irony for others when they themselves lack the basic understanding of it. Irony is irony regardless of whether you are aware of the forces causing the unexpected outcome or not.
7777777 You expect to get to work quickly **because** you're running late? Also I'd love to live in the little village where traffic jams are "unexpected". In most cities (only major cities have traffic jams?) in the first world those are simply a fact of life. But it doesn't matter, because you're still missing the *deliberately* part. What deliberate action did you take that made those traffic jams unexpected? Nothing? (no being late does not count as a deliberate action to make traffic jams disappear - at least in most people's book). Then it's not irony. Just bad luck.
There's a lot of over analysis among the comments. Ed Byrne is a comedian who built a clever routine around the words of a song, developing it by throwing in some examples, and even adding a simile/metaphor gag. What matters is whether it's funny or not. I suspect the analysis is from the sort of Alanis Morisette fans Ed Byrne is talking about.
@GuitarSlinger26 He's made three DVDs and has had multiple successful tours. He's also noted as being one of the top comedians in the UK right now. Isn't that ironic?
Alanis also said: "For me the great debate on whether what I was saying in 'Ironic' was ironic wasn't a traumatic debate. I'd always embraced the fact that every once in a while I'd be the malapropism queen. And when Glen and I were writing it, we definitely were not doggedly making sure that everything was technically ironic. It's a testament to the fact that we didn't think it was going to be put under the microscope by 30 million people."
haha i love this video... im on an english degree and we were shown this in our creative writing class and it made me understand irony so much better :P
As a mistake to avoid, right? Cause... this guy is obv wrong and making jokes, not actual points. Like... English professors would know that.. dear God I hope...
I didn't really hear any misogyny. He merely claimed that Alanis and later the audience member were mistaken, not that this was because they were women.
Haha I love this :) Gosh I find it ironic that my english teacher last year tried to teach our class what irony was by using the song ironic which isn't ironic.
My wife is late for a meeting ( Pr/marketing) with the actual Train company that's making her late in the first place. I sent her a text to remind her about this great bit of standup..
@@zenbudhism yes it is , she was having a meeting with a specific rail company. she was late for that meeting because a train service run by that company was delayed . doh. ??
@@zenbudhism Why would you have a meeting about delays with an advertising PR company ?? The meeting was about promoting the "great service" of the rail company. Stop acting like a Dunning Kruger "expert" on Irony.
Hilarious. "If you were a town planner... On your way to a seminar of town planners, to give a talk about how you solved the problem of traffic congestion in your area, and couldn't get to it, cuz you got stuck in a traffic jam, that'd be well ironic, wouldn't it?" xD
Obviously this dude has no real understanding of the song. Jokes on him. The song's message is that none of the examples given in the song are actually ironic.. that's the irony. There should be a song written about this dude called "Ignorant." Seriously.
I watched this once when I was like 16. Now I'm 30 and still think "10, 000 spoons isn't ironic; that's just stupid!" every time I hear the song so decided to look it up and it's funnier than I remembered 🤣
Wasn't my favorite song off Jagged Little Pill. "All I Really Want", "One Hand In My Pocket," "You Learn" and the "secret track" after the last one ("Forgive Me, Love") are the most memorable, to me.
i think the part where the guy who's afraid to fly finally gets on a plane and then the plane crashes, does count as irony, tho. maybe i'm mistaken. this is one of my favorite comedy bits ever, not just by ed byrne, but by my favorite comediennes in general.
You can't just blame Alanis, there were sound engineers, producers, board operators, mixing engineers, mastering engineers etc....probably listened to this tune a couple of hundred times to get everything just right sonically and arrangement wise. And yet not one of those geniuses ever thought to say, "You know Alanis, there's nothing Ironic in any of the examples here." Cheers!
"nooooooooo..... because she said it's "like 10,000 spoons"..... which makes it a simile!!" FUNNIEST LINE EVER!!! such an English nerd.... and I love him for it!!
U mean, nothing is LESS ironic, than an iron made out of iron. that's literal, & expected, & identical. A triple threat of non-irony in every sense of the word. #mind=blown
Tai Theguy Exactly that's what is so ironic about the whole thing, that an iron can't be irony even though it's irony. Pun greater than or equal to irony
I love humor! I would die without it! I love raw humor, subtle humor, dry humor, intelligent humor..... I enjoy laughing at myself and mocking others BUT What the hell is this? Who's that lame lame lame parasite?!! Well No Wonder I never heard of that nobody!!! What a bad "stand up" or call it whatever you want. The "irony" part Could have been funny but he just kept on digging himself his own hole of shame. I'm sure that even Alanis Morissette pissed in her pants... feeling sorry for the guy.
Dude I don't hate the UK. Where you get that from I have no idea. The original dufus I was referring to was Ed Byrne - not you. As for typical - I'm referring to typical homosexual defence when there was no reference to it in the first place. The English are not thick - it's my heritage too albeit a while ago. As for my sister - my twin - she's not Joanie so I won't bother looking her up - thanks all the same ...
We all love the angry young man but not the woman. Our culture's message? Be sweet, ladies or suffer the wrath of Mr. Bigot Byrnes. Would he be allowed to have this kind of monologue and moan the deficiencies - in his eyes - of black people? Of course not, but women, they need to know their place and being angry is not acceptable. Our attitudes toward women aren't really that much different that those cultures we call barbaric when they treat women like property.
@DoinThupidThings All right -- lemme just say that this guy is hilarious!! And btw, Ironic is musically a really good melody...and Alanis is very talented
+Giant Crab It's a book of mathematical theorems and equations, sometimes with the multiplication tables as well that school children use. I had one when I was in primary and secondary school.
It's not a "book of mathematical theorems and equations". Its purpose is similar to multiplication tables which contain results for common multiplication operations: help with memorisation and looking up the result, but it's for the operation of logarithm, which is inverse of exponentiation(multiplying the number by itself a specific number of times).
Except the term "log tables" is used in Ireland to refer to the entire book of mathematical theorems and equations, not just the section on logarithms. That's what Ed is referring to, being Irish.
@navids20 I will try, but if this guy keeps this up, I`m afraid I won`t be so successfull ... Seriously now, I really could not find anything funny about this :(
The Ironic thing about the song is that it's not really Ironic. I think it is Ironic tbh and that this comedian is now a washed up has been. "He's one of the top comedains in the UK right now". Um no i've not seen him on anything and had never even heard of him until i searched Alanis Morrissette - Ironic.
But a simile IS a metaphor. Not all metaphors are simile but all simile are metaphors. Metaphor is just a broader term that covers simile. So OH can you feel that. I believe i'm wearing the smartypants today.
+Tanje van Lingen (Musemath) - when you start taking jokes apart, pretty much all of them are a bit wrong - I think there's often a deliberate twist of reality. If comedians made jokes using formal logic, a result from your sort of analysis would be blinding.
+Tanje (Musemath) Nope, two different figures of speech. The difference is that a simile explains the parallelism - usually with the word "like", like in this case - while a metaphor leaves it unspecified.
CoCoMoroney I also like: "Airlines have banned passengers from taking tweezers on board... Anybody who can hijack a plane using a set of tweezers deserves the fucking plane."
@stembarer But the man stuck in the traffic jam, is saying he is glad that he won't be late. But he is going to. So that is irony. Well, at least, that's what i learned in the class of languages : /
@Jzadek72 Nah, if i wanna know the meaning of the word i'd ask my English Teacher, get a dictonary or google it. I wouldn't watch a lame video from some has-been comedian.
Alanis didn't realise she was being unironic. That's why she answers her own question with "And isn’t it ironic…don’t you think/ A little too ironic…and, yeah, I really do think…" She spends much of the song smirking at other people's (and her own) misfortune. It should be called (Auto)Schadenfreude. Not that catchy, I admit.
Ed actually referred to that when he performed this part at the Just For Laughs festival in Montreal, saying he "used to look like Alanis Morisette, when she was still a man called Alan Morris" ;)
I was the first among anyone I knew that was saying that the song Ironic actually has no ironies in it, just unfortunate experiences. The only irony is that the song is completely devoid of ironies.
I love this. I'll never look at the song the same way ever again. Damn, Ed is so young in this. He's 51 now and just as funny. His last message to the BBC for cancelling Mock The Week was brutal and I'm sure he was speaking for all the regulars.
The "ironic" bit was also done by a famous female comedian on a pretty big special and it killed. can't for the life of me remember who it was but I'm sure, now, it was lifted from Ed's material.
Sorry to be a Poindexter but Morrisette's song does deliver sound examples of situational irony, with the possible exception of "...meeting the man of my dreams, then meeting his beautiful wife" which may not qualify as an example of situational irony.
I remember when there was a charity concert and Ed came on straight after Alanis Morisette and did this routine. Obviously there were loads of Alanis fans in the audience which made it ten times better.
This woman made an Alanis version of my humps as a pisstake, and got a cake in the shape of a giant ass in return as a thank you.
I think she could? Laugh at this! 😁
@Anois Éire Twelve years!! At this point I'm waiting for their kids to hack the account and reply xD
Does that qualify as ironic I'm not really sure. If it does I'm sure Ed mentioned it
To the people who downvoted this and or wrote angry comments:
Even if you love Alanis to death, you can still appreciate humor, can't you? And you have to agree that the lyrics to that song were a bit clumsy, right? I mean, using the term wrong is one thing but if you're basing a song lyric and a musical career on it, you should perhaps research it a bit better?
I don't have a beef with Alanis but I can't get over those lyrics. And to you people claiming that it was on purpose: Have you looked at the other lyrics on that album? I wouldn't call them crap, but they are certainly not deep. So, assuming that they were all written by her, that's a very implausible theory.
You can not appreciate humor if "You love Alanis to death". I mean, she is definitely a talented musician, but she is, as Ed Byrne said: " *A* *moanin'* *cow* "
What does liking AM has to do with whether she's mistaken or not
Is that how it works, I like someone therefore he can make no mistake
That's pretty ironi- No it's not
@@sjjr8787 So you're saying being stuck in a traffic jam is "deliberately contrary to what one expects"? How? And remember *deliberately* is an important bit here. It's not just about being unexpected. So being stuck in a traffic jam you didn't expect? Not irony, just bad luck.
There has to be some *reason* for why you thought you wouldn't be in a traffic jam and it then happening anyhow - that's irony.
@@voodoo1094 it is deliberately contrary to what one expects because one would be deliberatley expecting to get to work quickly if one is running late. One would drive faster and take every deliberate action necessary to get there as quickly as possible. Therefore a traffic jam popping up out of nowhere would be ironic as it would deliberately contradict the expected outcome. You assume to much in presuming the traffic jam was simply coincidental. Traffic jams in general are not really to be expected other than in major cities suffering from overpopulation. Ironic to have all these people attempting to define irony for others when they themselves lack the basic understanding of it. Irony is irony regardless of whether you are aware of the forces causing the unexpected outcome or not.
7777777 You expect to get to work quickly **because** you're running late? Also I'd love to live in the little village where traffic jams are "unexpected". In most cities (only major cities have traffic jams?) in the first world those are simply a fact of life.
But it doesn't matter, because you're still missing the *deliberately* part. What deliberate action did you take that made those traffic jams unexpected? Nothing? (no being late does not count as a deliberate action to make traffic jams disappear - at least in most people's book). Then it's not irony. Just bad luck.
There's a lot of over analysis among the comments. Ed Byrne is a comedian who built a clever routine around the words of a song, developing it by throwing in some examples, and even adding a simile/metaphor gag. What matters is whether it's funny or not.
I suspect the analysis is from the sort of Alanis Morisette fans Ed Byrne is talking about.
Ed Byrne's 'Irony' skit is a bona-fide classic. And I don't mean that ironically, Alanis.
watched this sooo many times i know the words off by heart, i love this man going to see him in 15 days
Weirdo
The truth nobody wants to tell you about the word "irony": nobody will ever allow you to truly define the word or use it correctly.
+Sephern I sense a trap...
see my recent reply to my earlier comment. I think ur right tho. more ppl r just gonna say it's wrong. even though I JUST reread like 7 definitions
Nik Dadson The trap is that it's ironic that nobody will ever be able to define "irony." :p
There's a book called a dictionary that contains precisely the information you're looking for.
Another one at Baker Street tube station in London - the "No Smoking" sign is on a wall surrounded by tiles of Sherlock Holmes smoking a pipe
This guy looks like a Grunge Singer, he's fucking hilarious!!!
Great material. He looked much taller seven years ago.
It's the baggy 90's clothes
@GuitarSlinger26 He's made three DVDs and has had multiple successful tours. He's also noted as being one of the top comedians in the UK right now. Isn't that ironic?
This is frankly hilarious.
awesome job
As an English teacher I’d love nothing more than to show this to my class but good god I’d be fired before he could finish the first line
do it! :)
Just do your own version
@@dobbinthehorse 15 years and you are still active, a little ironic don't you think?
I was still at school when I saw him do this routine on TV (mid 90s I guess) and it taught me the meaning of irony
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10,000 similies and all I need is a metaphor; and isn't it unfortunate?
I was so annoyed he didn't say "can you feel the Byrne?" when he talked about the woman that he corrected.
😂
We had an outdoor ashtray at the courthouse I worked at in Indianapolis with a no smoking sign actually built into the thing. I found that ironic...
Dea B “It’s like a no smoking sign, built into an ashtray”
That would actually fit in the song
Not ironic. They provide the ashtray so people toss their cigs in there instead of on the ground when they see the sign.
Clever, but doesn't remove the irony.
such a legendary bit.
@Cliff Hanley No.
@@mrman2415 Cliff's been cancelled
He done it often enough
Totally..
Alanis also said:
"For me the great debate on whether what I was saying in 'Ironic' was ironic wasn't a traumatic debate. I'd always embraced the fact that every once in a while I'd be the malapropism queen. And when Glen and I were writing it, we definitely were not doggedly making sure that everything was technically ironic. It's a testament to the fact that we didn't think it was going to be put under the microscope by 30 million people."
@@drm3259 Which ironically (heh) worked out for them because now people are saying that's the whole point of the song.
This isn't slating. It's a bit, which humorously points out the flaws in her lyrics.
His accent was a lot thicker back then.
This routine NEVER gets old
Facts
Used to really like that song but now any time it comes on I think of this clip
"It's like ONE THOUSAND COMMENTS......... when all you NEEEEEEED is a LIIIIIIIIIIIKE!"
Or ordering a CAPS LOCK key when you really wanted a Shift
I love Alanis Morisette and her music, but this video was hilarious. I'm kicking myself for not finding out about this guy sooner.
Alanis Morissette does know what "irony" means. To her, irony means "with iron-like properties".
Cliff Hanley lol
Ed gave five example of irony. Alana gave zero
Irony is like goldie or bronzey yet with iron
Baldrick - Blackadder
This is a routine where other comedians watch it and think “fuck why didn’t I think of that”
many did the same bit
@@silverkitty2503 like who? I’ve never come across it before but would like to see other takes :-)
haha i love this video...
im on an english degree and we were shown this in our creative writing class and it made me understand irony so much better :P
As a mistake to avoid, right? Cause... this guy is obv wrong and making jokes, not actual points. Like... English professors would know that.. dear God I hope...
In an "ironic" twist, just as he was going on about the 10,000 spoons and no knife bit, my sister walked past the webcam with a fork
proving there that you dont get irony either!
That would be an interesting coincidence....not irony.
Well...if she was moaning about needing 10,000 spoons but all she could find was a fork...
Perhaps they were spooning?
Coincidence...that's not irony either.
....someone beat me to it, didn't they?! Edit - which isn't ironic, btw.
That's comedy I enjoy :D
I saw him do this bit at Edinburgh Fringe Festival in '96. So funny then & still hilarious today. I'm glad I found this :)
Here's Alanis Morissette with her new single "Pfawwww", taken from her album "Fuhmmmm" XD
Where exactly is the misogyny in this video?
I didn't really hear any misogyny. He merely claimed that Alanis and later the audience member were mistaken, not that this was because they were women.
"and then the next day it turned out that a spoon woulda done..." lol XD
Haha I love this :)
Gosh I find it ironic that my english teacher last year tried to teach our class what irony was by using the song ironic which isn't ironic.
Agree
@@dee_seejay why assume the teacher is a woman?
Should probably retake the class... with a different teacher.
this guy is fast becoming one of my favourite comedians. hes so funny!!!!!
My wife is late for a meeting ( Pr/marketing) with the actual Train company that's making her late in the first place. I sent her a text to remind her about this great bit of standup..
That's not ironic
@@zenbudhism yes it is , she was having a meeting with a specific rail company. she was late for that meeting because a train service run by that company was delayed . doh. ??
It would only be ironic if the meeting stated the delays were improving - you see opposites
@@zenbudhism Why would you have a meeting about delays with an advertising PR company ?? The meeting was about promoting the "great service" of the rail company. Stop acting like a Dunning Kruger "expert" on Irony.
Hilarious. "If you were a town planner... On your way to a seminar of town planners, to give a talk about how you solved the problem of traffic congestion in your area, and couldn't get to it, cuz you got stuck in a traffic jam, that'd be well ironic, wouldn't it?" xD
MOST people get irony wrong. Most of those I've heard getting it blindingly wrong are Americans.
...or Canadians.
scott burton Blackadder? :3
Alanis is Canadian...
+MrAdzerman That was only one character. And he was an obvious moron. Having said that it was a good joke
Alanis Morrisette is Canadian, not American. How ironic.
I just responded to a thirteen-year-old post now I get why Alanis Morissette is relevant
living in High Wycombe, i can confirm it's not a nice place :P
Can't wait for her next hit, paradoxical.
I happen to love Alanis Morissette, but this is freaking hilarious! I was in tears the whole set.
Ajme, mora da je baš strašno biti TI!
She should have called the song sksksksk
Fuck! I thought I was the only one who had such strong feelings towards a pop song! This video is just as refreshing as it is humorous! Respect.
Obviously this dude has no real understanding of the song. Jokes on him. The song's message is that none of the examples given in the song are actually ironic.. that's the irony. There should be a song written about this dude called "Ignorant." Seriously.
@@18CYN18Nope. The comedian is correct. "Isn't it ironic? Don't you think? A little too ironic, and I really do think"
I would argue that irony is quite a difficult concept to describe to someone who has no idea what it is.
I watched this once when I was like 16. Now I'm 30 and still think "10, 000 spoons isn't ironic; that's just stupid!" every time I hear the song so decided to look it up and it's funnier than I remembered 🤣
Wasn't my favorite song off Jagged Little Pill.
"All I Really Want", "One Hand In My Pocket," "You Learn" and the "secret track" after the last one ("Forgive Me, Love") are the most memorable, to me.
Wow, I love Alanis and that song, but I must admit, this analysis of the song is just pure brilliance.
Lol ,I forgot Ed used to be a women! Only joking, he's brilliant.
i think the part where the guy who's afraid to fly finally gets on a plane and then the plane crashes, does count as irony, tho. maybe i'm mistaken. this is one of my favorite comedy bits ever, not just by ed byrne, but by my favorite comediennes in general.
They're all ironic, without any doubt. These folks are either joking, ignorant, or being pedantic.
You can't just blame Alanis, there were sound engineers, producers, board operators, mixing engineers, mastering engineers etc....probably listened to this tune a couple of hundred times to get everything just right sonically and arrangement wise. And yet not one of those geniuses ever thought to say, "You know Alanis, there's nothing Ironic in any of the examples here." Cheers!
Because they have an adult English language comprehension level? You didn't realize this guy is joking?
My english teacher told me to watch this when I tried to be all smart and told him I knew what ironic means because I listened to Alanis Morissette...
One of the greatest pieces of stand-up comedy of the last 20 years.
Now 30 years...
"nooooooooo..... because she said it's "like 10,000 spoons"..... which makes it a simile!!" FUNNIEST LINE EVER!!! such an English nerd.... and I love him for it!!
Nothings more ironic than an Iron made out of Iron
M8, my iron is made of wood. Suck on that.
You explicitly state that your iron is made of frozen water
U mean, nothing is LESS ironic, than an iron made out of iron. that's literal, & expected, & identical. A triple threat of non-irony in every sense of the word. #mind=blown
Tai Theguy
Exactly that's what is so ironic about the whole thing, that an iron can't be irony even though it's irony.
Pun greater than or equal to irony
Sanat Toma' irony is like bronzy or goldy yet made out of iron
Funnily enough, Alanis Morissette did have a subsequent song called 'Thank You', though 'for not smoking' isn't in the lyrics!
He is good. That's ok, she's Forgiven.
Ah, I see what you did there
Legendary bit and legendary accent
I love humor! I would die without it! I love raw humor, subtle humor, dry humor, intelligent humor..... I enjoy laughing at myself and mocking others BUT What the hell is this? Who's that lame lame lame parasite?!! Well No Wonder I never heard of that nobody!!! What a bad "stand up" or call it whatever you want. The "irony" part Could have been funny but he just kept on digging himself his own hole of shame. I'm sure that even Alanis Morissette pissed in her pants... feeling sorry for the guy.
this bit is brilliant!
Dude I don't hate the UK. Where you get that from I have no idea. The original dufus I was referring to was Ed Byrne - not you. As for typical - I'm referring to typical homosexual defence when there was no reference to it in the first place. The English are not thick - it's my heritage too albeit a while ago. As for my sister - my twin - she's not Joanie so I won't bother looking her up - thanks all the same ...
sublime piece of comedy there ed
We all love the angry young man but not the woman. Our culture's message? Be sweet, ladies or suffer the wrath of Mr. Bigot Byrnes. Would he be allowed to have this kind of monologue and moan the deficiencies - in his eyes - of black people? Of course not, but women, they need to know their place and being angry is not acceptable. Our attitudes toward women aren't really that much different that those cultures we call barbaric when they treat women like property.
I studied English most of my life!!... And I only know the difference between a metaphor and a simile thanks to Mr Byrne
@DoinThupidThings All right -- lemme just say that this guy is hilarious!!
And btw, Ironic is musically a really good melody...and Alanis is very talented
What's a log table? Something you find in a log cabin?
+Giant Crab It's a book of mathematical theorems and equations, sometimes with the multiplication tables as well that school children use. I had one when I was in primary and secondary school.
+blazegunshark We use scientific calculators now so we don't need log tables anymore, which maybe why they didn't know what a log table was.
Komic Klepto We had scientific calculators as well. We still needed the log tables for the theorems in algebra and geometry.
It's not a "book of mathematical theorems and equations". Its purpose is similar to multiplication tables which contain results for common multiplication operations: help with memorisation and looking up the result, but it's for the operation of logarithm, which is inverse of exponentiation(multiplying the number by itself a specific number of times).
Except the term "log tables" is used in Ireland to refer to the entire book of mathematical theorems and equations, not just the section on logarithms. That's what Ed is referring to, being Irish.
Rain on your wedding day is only ironic if you're marrying the sun god, Ra.
Ed Byrne used to be funny?
Judging by the amount of videos I've watched recently, I'd say he still is, mate
@navids20 I will try, but if this guy keeps this up, I`m afraid I won`t be so successfull ... Seriously now, I really could not find anything funny about this :(
Bill Hicks is American and the best comedian ever. Problem is though that he was more popular in Europe than in the US, so...
Situational Irony is supposed to be: When the opposite of what expected to happen, happens. so maybe Alanis wasn't wrong at all.
popo situational irony was an American invention used as a stepping stone to ‘irony’. A concept beyond most, over the pond
The Ironic thing about the song is that it's not really Ironic. I think it is Ironic tbh and that this comedian is now a washed up has been. "He's one of the top comedains in the UK right now". Um no i've not seen him on anything and had never even heard of him until i searched Alanis Morrissette - Ironic.
Afraid to fly
Waits whole life to fly
Plane crash.
Ironic, dontcha think?
No.
If he had never flyed because he was afraid but a plane crashed on top of him, killing him, now THAT would be terribly ironic.
Only if it crashed into an "Afraid to fly? We can help!" billboard.
It would only be ironic if the guy was flying specifically to overcome his fear of flying.
No irony, just Sod's Law.
DiogoSM *Flown. Just trying to help for next time. I liked your comment.
JESUS CHRIST IS LORD ! The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. GET SAVED NOW !
But a simile IS a metaphor. Not all metaphors are simile but all simile are metaphors. Metaphor is just a broader term that covers simile. So OH can you feel that. I believe i'm wearing the smartypants today.
Wrong
XblackopsX100 No, Poekiefreak is right, but it's a fucking joke, and it still works.
+Tanje van Lingen (Musemath) - when you start taking jokes apart, pretty much all of them are a bit wrong - I think there's often a deliberate twist of reality. If comedians made jokes using formal logic, a result from your sort of analysis would be blinding.
+Tanje (Musemath) Nope, two different figures of speech. The difference is that a simile explains the parallelism - usually with the word "like", like in this case - while a metaphor leaves it unspecified.
No, you're wrong. They're seperate
how did this guy get the job? he continues to be the worst stand up around. sit down ed, just sit down!
Only funny joke he ever made ....
What about his back to the future joke.
CoCoMoroney
I also like:
"Airlines have banned passengers from taking tweezers on board...
Anybody who can hijack a plane using a set of tweezers deserves the fucking plane."
the irony (no pun intended)? The first lyric of the chous is also a simile!
@stembarer But the man stuck in the traffic jam, is saying he is glad that he won't be late. But he is going to. So that is irony. Well, at least, that's what i learned in the class of languages : /
Hey you wanna hear a joke funnier than anything he said in this set? Go listen to todays music.
@Jzadek72 Nah, if i wanna know the meaning of the word i'd ask my English Teacher, get a dictonary or google it. I wouldn't watch a lame video from some has-been comedian.
A simile is a type of metaphor tho.
Alanis didn't realise she was being unironic. That's why she answers her own question with "And isn’t it ironic…don’t you think/ A little too ironic…and, yeah, I really do think…"
She spends much of the song smirking at other people's (and her own) misfortune. It should be called (Auto)Schadenfreude. Not that catchy, I admit.
heres alanis morisete with her new single duhhh LOL
@heavyd1234567910 He is indeed, but he also appears on loads of BBC panel shows.
Ironically a simile is a metaphor. 4:30
@Jzadek72 Ok whatever. But at the end of the day Alanis wins. More money, more well known. He's a washed up has-been.
Ed actually referred to that when he performed this part at the Just For Laughs festival in Montreal, saying he "used to look like Alanis Morisette, when she was still a man called Alan Morris" ;)
Even Alanis thinks the song is ridicouls
Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.
Jimi Hendrix
I was the first among anyone I knew that was saying that the song Ironic actually has no ironies in it, just unfortunate experiences. The only irony is that the song is completely devoid of ironies.
@Jzadek72 No i didn't. If i did it would be 5 minutes of my life i'd never get back.
I love this. I'll never look at the song the same way ever again. Damn, Ed is so young in this. He's 51 now and just as funny. His last message to the BBC for cancelling Mock The Week was brutal and I'm sure he was speaking for all the regulars.
Getting hit by an ambulance is an irony ^^
This guy is so NOT funny, Wtf are they doing pity laughs for
The "ironic" bit was also done by a famous female comedian on a pretty big special and it killed. can't for the life of me remember who it was but I'm sure, now, it was lifted from Ed's material.
Sorry to be a Poindexter but Morrisette's song does deliver sound examples of situational irony, with the possible exception of "...meeting the man of my dreams, then meeting his beautiful wife" which may not qualify as an example of situational irony.
Yeah, it'd have to be like afterward, or coincidental.
Aaaaha, this guy is not funny regardless of the subject