From today's Avengers World #1, Bruce Banner and Steve Rogers having a chat. Bruce Banner, one of the most intelligent people in the Marvel universe, has no idea what irony means. Her loving trifles ...

This excerpt comes from a recent speech given at the University of Kansas, which outlines some of the ideas developed for the book A Case For Irony. 1. On the face of it, a conception does not seem ...

Remember the scene in “Reality Bites” where Wynona Ryder is asked to define irony? “Irony. Uh … Irony. It’s a noun. It’s when something is … ironic. It’s, uh … Well, I can’t really define irony but I ...

I COULD never, until recently, divest myself of the haunting feeling that being ironical had something to do with the entering of the iron into one’s soul. I thought I knew what irony was, and I ...

It’s come to my attention that you don’t understand what the word irony means. It’s OK, no big, I actually have no idea either. This was pointed out to me earlier this year by a “friend” (put in ...

As the great British comic, Ricky Gervais once implied, England and America may not so much be divided by a common tongue, but by their distinctive use (and in the case of the Brits, their abuse) of ...

Excerpted from Chapter 10: “Yeah, I Really Do Think” of Why Alanis Morissette Matters by Megan Volpert. Copyright © 2025 by Megan Volpert. Excerpted with ...

If irony abounds, but no one notices, does that mean irony is dead? Or does it mean we’re living in the most ironic of all possible worlds? That’s the question that comes to mind watching the ...

On September 18, 2001, Graydon Carter, the editor of Vanity Fair, declared, “I think it’s the end of the age of irony.” He was trashed for the sentiment. Only a month after the event, Michiko Kakutani ...

No, seriously. I bet they don't know the meaning of the word. But anyway, here's some scary Tea Party news: Ron Paul is apparently too mainstream for the Tea Party movement. Paul, the Gulf Coast ...