His 2009 appearance sparked controversy due to a badly received ironic joke about murdering the latest Miss California, who stated that she opposed same-sex marriages.
When Eric Vonn took the story in his hands, he rewrote all the rest of the story from about episode 40 to the end, and made it in his unique manner providing almost all the dialogues and scenes in ironic, sarcastic manner with lots of allegories full of black humor.
The cafe's clientele were notoriously "cruisy," leading many people over the years to compare the shop, with a sense of ironic disparagement, to its neighbors.
The listener is taken from street drama on "My Dogz Iz My Gunz" to metaphysical musings on "Oh My God" and rage-filled vents on his girlfriend in "Cheatin'" before an ironic post-mortal cover version of Louis Armstrong's "What a Wonderful World" finishes this album which went deeper than many critics had expected from the hardcore rapper.
Then in 1918 Lytton Strachey published his critique of Victorianism in the shape of four ironic biographies in Eminent Victorians, which added to the arguments around Bloomsbury that continue to this day, and "brought him the triumph he had always longed for ... The book was a sensation".
She is also one of the main characters in several novels including Italo Calvino's surrealistic, highly ironic novel Il Cavaliere inesistente (The Nonexistent Knight).
On the Zoo TV Tour, it was about Nazism; on the Elevation Tour, it became an indictment against handgun violence, illustrated by references to John Lennon's assassination and an ironic intro video clip featuring Charlton Heston, who was at that time the president of the National Rifle Association.
The covers are: "Que Ironía" (It's Ironic) and "Corazón de Roca" (Heart of Stone) first released by Los Muecas; "Me Piden" (They ask me) by Los Baby's; "Y Volveré" (I'll Return), "Olvidarte... Nunca" (Forget You... Never) and "Te Acordarás de Mi" (You'll Remember Me) by Los Angeles Negros.
In 1967 Siepi was Don Giovanni in a controversially received production staged by Otto Schenk and designed by Luciano Damiani that showed Mozart's masterpiece in the light of the commedia dell'arte, emphasizing the comic and ironic elements of this opera (conductor Josef Krips strongly opposed this production's concept).
On the other, the preservation of Roman republican culture and "virtues" was a paramount goal for Octavian, so it is ironic that his restoration of monarchy led to their complete corruption and decay and ultimately that of Latin culture in the West (Sack of Rome).
Along with Ron Hamence and Colin McCool, neither of whom played in a Test during the tour, Ring called himself "ground staff" because of the paucity of the trio's on-field duties in the major matches and they often sang ironic songs about their status.
An earlier fight with a praetorian guard (possibly Sejanus as well) earned him the ironic nickname "Castor", after the patron god of the praetorians.
In September 1942, after taking part in the strike against the German occupation, he was deported together with seven other teachers to the Hinzert concentration camp where the inhuman conditions were to exert a profound influence on his work, calling for an ironic level of introspection.
In 2011, she also made a small ironic cameo appearance in Norwegian Hardstyle producers Da Tweekaz song and music video "P.A.P (People against Porn)" for the record label Dirty Workz.
It was ironic, as historian Eric Hobsbawm has noted, that the peasants turned their anger on the revolutionaries, whose ideals also included improvement of peasant situation.
Gansi, the name itself is a reference to the American rock group Guns N' Roses and, is an ironic way in remembering Zagreb in the early 90s around the immortal club "Jabuka".
In an article in the journal American Speech, linguist Edwin Battistella analyzes the development of the expression from ironic mockery of bodybuilding culture to an overt connotation of weakness and a covert connotation of effeminacy.
His poem, Il Giorno (The Day, 1763), consisting of ironic instructions to a young nobleman as to the best method of spending his mornings, marked a distinct advance in Italian blank verse.
Their perhaps ironic nickname was after Paul Kruger, the Boer War leader defeated by Lord Roberts in 1900.
The trilogy of films called Heimat by the German director Edgar Reitz (1984, 1992, and 2004) are partly an ironic reference to this type of sentimental film.
It has been differentiated from “classic sexism” which Quart describes as being “un-ironic, explicit, violent, banal” and which one could likened to the comments regarding legitimate rape made by Missouri Republican Senatorial candidate Todd Akin or "rape rape" by comedian Whoopi Goldberg.
Manthia Diawara, author of the article "Homeboy Cosmopolitan", writes, "Hip-hop culture gives aesthetic pleasure through ironic and parodic play with mainstream images of black people".
The name, an ironic reference to the then-celebrated Angels with Dirty Faces movie, was given to them on account of their typically South American colour and flair.
"I'm in a Band With an Italian Drummer" is an ironic/spoof rock song by Bruce Dickinson, first issued as the B-side of his 1996 single "Back from the Edge" (only on its 7-inch vinyl format) off his solo album Skunkworks, and subsequently released on the second disc of the 2001 The Best of Bruce Dickinson compilation album.
One of the earliest references to ironic precision can be found in the 1913 novel by Edith Wharton, The Custom of the Country.
It is worth noting the intense Czech culture that Sterbak was surrounded by and continues to appreciate (for example the works of Kafka, Kundera and Capek) as strong buttressing references in her ironic and often pessimistic artwork.
Influenced by Duchamp, Man Ray, and Max Ernst, Klapheck's "ironic treatment of everyday mechanics" prefigures Pop art in its magnification of the trivial.
The CD maxi single featured the song along with a cover of the Alanis Morissette song "Ironic" she performed live on Australian Idols "Up Close & Personal" special.
"Moog Droog" is an ironic anglicised spelling of the Welsh phrase mwg drwg ("bad smoke"), slang for marijuana, making a pun on the Moog synthesizer (and/or its inventor) and the slang word "droog" (based on the Russian for "friend") from A Clockwork Orange.
In another parody the feminist blog Feministing uses a version depicting the mudflap girl holding up her middle finger as an ironic logo.
In his 2010 book A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain, Owen Hatherley cites as ironic the fact that the NUM headquarters is more sympathetic to the history of Sheffield than anything constructed by New Labour, despite the latter's professed concern for "heritage".
In the middle 1990s, while serving as president of AAAI, Hayes began a series of attacks on critics of AI, mostly phrased in an ironic light, and (together with his colleague Kenneth Ford) invented an award named after Simon Newcomb to be given for the most ridiculous argument "disproving" the possibility of AI.
The boos became more ironic and good-natured when in 2005 Manley changed his entrance theme from Chumbawamba's Tubthumping to Tony Christie's Is This the Way to Amarillo.
Another notable example is the Nickelodeon animated series The Ren and Stimpy Show, which used both well-known classical music excerpts and a wide range of pre-1960s production music cues—including many pieces familiar from their use in earlier cartoons—which were chosen for their ironic and humorous effect.
Rime de bine, 1998 ("Good Rhymes") - ironic reference to how Ion Iliescu and his National Salvation Front called their supporters (oameni de bine, "good people") in contrast to their political opponents (golani, "hooligans" - see also the Golaniad)
This is ironic however considering that the Italian actress Daniela Bianchi, who eventually played Tatiana, had her voice redubbed anyway.
original music: David Hewson (some familiar classical pieces are also used, and the closing credits are set to a rewritten version of I Vow to Thee, My Country, heavily ironic in the circumstances)
It is interesting to note that other than the first ascent of Raven’s Gully in Glencoe by Hamish MacInnes and Chris Bonington in 1953 all the grade V routes in Scotland were confined to the Lairig’s stomping ground of the Eastern Cairngorms in the early 1950s and it is ironic that it was Lairig members Patey and Nicol who teamed up with Hamish MacInnes to climb the first grade V on Ben Nevis, this came in the form of the much prized first ascent of Zero Gully.
Alanis Morissette – The Singles Box, commonly abbreviated as just The Singles Box, is an Alanis Morissette box set that includes five of her six singles from 1995's Jagged Little Pill: "Ironic", Hand in My Pocket, Head over Feet, You Learn and "You Oughta Know", as well as live tracks and alternate versions of JLP tracks spread across five maxi CDs.
The documentary uses several versions of the song Sixteen Tons while throwing an ironic look at the history of humanity.
At first greeted on the council as a successful member of the business community, Daly soon found he had enemies among Portland's establishment, most notably his former employer, the Oregonian. Yale University historian, Robert D. Johnston, describes the newspaper's view of him as that of "devil incarnate," by the midpoint of his term on the council, opposing what they termed his "socialistic plans and rosy dreams," an ironic turn of phrase given the city's nickname, the City of Roses.
The title of the record is ironic, taken from a news cutting reporting a conversation said to have taken place between Charles, Prince of Wales and a badly burned soldier (Simon Weston) who had returned from the Falklands;
Cindy Sherman, as part of her "History Portrait" series (1989-1990), produced a parody on Sick Bacchus, an ironic photographic self-portrait named "Untitled # 224".