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! 😁
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."
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.
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 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.
thanks a lot!! having fun watching them! they had a dutch version too, with absolutely genius comediens. sadly they put it at a horrible time so no one watched and it got canned halfway : (
lol at "I was wearing the clever trousers that day"! So glad someone posted this, I love this routine. I wonder if on a smoking break someone caught the lit end of their cigarette on Ed's forehead, would it be ironic that Ed Byrne had an 'ead burn, lol?
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.
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.
Simile: a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with `like' or `as') Metaphor: is language that directly connects seemingly unrelated subjects Notice how the difference between them is "resemblence" "directly connect" So you are wrong.
Does anyone have Ed Byrne's skecth about Back To The Future? I've only seen it once and I'd love to see it again. I think it was on The Comedy Store highlights show from Channel 5.
i went to go see him and after the show me and my mates ran round the back to get his autograph, he was so lovely! he insisted on getting his driver so we could all get a picture together with him. its nice to know hes as nice as he seems on stage! X)
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.
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.
+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.
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!
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.
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 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 🤣
can't remember mock the week, have seen quite a few buzzcocks, but not the ones with ed. is he a regular on mock the week? i think i saw him in a show about a year ago!
Her songs are all written by several writers also. Several writers send songs into producers and once on an album they are placed as co written with the singer and the producer.
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
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.
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."
a simile is not a metaphor, they're both ways of describing things in terms of something else but there's a clear distinction: "you are my sun" would by a metaphor while "you shine like the sun" is a simile, they're not interchangeable, not even in one way
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.
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
Also the difference between similes and metaphors is: Metaphor: It's 10,000 spoons when all you need is a knife Simile: It's LIKE 10,000 spoons when all you need is a knife
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
Used to really like that song but now any time it comes on I think of this clip
such a legendary bit.
@Cliff Hanley No.
@@mrman2415 Cliff's been cancelled
He done it often enough
Totally..
10,000 similies and all I need is a metaphor; and isn't it unfortunate?
This routine NEVER gets old
Facts
mate, once a year i pop back and watch this clip. Its a really good joke in his act, done soooo well. Rhys is right, it never gets old.
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.
I was so annoyed he didn't say "can you feel the Byrne?" when he talked about the woman that he corrected.
😂
hahaha that would have been better yes!!
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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this guy is fast becoming one of my favourite comedians. hes so funny!!!!!
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.
I love Alanis Morisette and her music, but this video was hilarious. I'm kicking myself for not finding out about this guy sooner.
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.
I saw him do this bit at Edinburgh Fringe Festival in '96. So funny then & still hilarious today. I'm glad I found this :)
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 :-)
His accent was a lot thicker back then.
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.
Irony is like goldie or bronzey yet with iron
Baldrick - Blackadder
This isn't slating. It's a bit, which humorously points out the flaws in her lyrics.
"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
Wow, I can't believe I found this again after all these years. This was one of the first videos I ever watched on RUclips!
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 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.
One of the greatest pieces of stand-up comedy of the last 20 years.
Now 30 years...
thanks a lot!! having fun watching them!
they had a dutch version too, with absolutely genius comediens. sadly they put it at a horrible time so no one watched and it got canned halfway : (
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.
lol at "I was wearing the clever trousers that day"! So glad someone posted this, I love this routine. I wonder if on a smoking break someone caught the lit end of their cigarette on Ed's forehead, would it be ironic that Ed Byrne had an 'ead burn, lol?
No
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!
I love this, I can watch it on repeat.
Here's Alanis Morissette with her new single "Pfawwww", taken from her album "Fuhmmmm" XD
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
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"
You have just summed up, very eloquently might I add, what I've been trying to get through people on RUclips for quite sometime now. Good job...
Wow, I love Alanis and that song, but I must admit, this analysis of the song is just pure brilliance.
he got a lot of mileage out of this one, saw him use it in Australia a few times. love it!
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.
Simile:
a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with `like' or `as')
Metaphor:
is language that directly connects seemingly unrelated subjects
Notice how the difference between them is "resemblence" "directly connect"
So you are wrong.
this bit is brilliant!
Does anyone have Ed Byrne's skecth about Back To The Future? I've only seen it once and I'd love to see it again. I think it was on The Comedy Store highlights show from Channel 5.
Legendary bit and legendary accent
i went to go see him and after the show me and my mates ran round the back to get his autograph, he was so lovely! he insisted on getting his driver so we could all get a picture together with him. its nice to know hes as nice as he seems on stage! X)
"and then the next day it turned out that a spoon woulda done..." lol XD
Heb 'm nu al zeker tien keer bekeken, hilarisch! Bekijk ook de andere posts van Byrne op RUclips. Té grappig!!
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.
brilliant!! I love to watch it over and over!
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.
I went to uni in Wycombe about 3 years ago :x
sublime piece of comedy there ed
Thank TV Tropes, which brought me here. This guy is hilarious.
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.
watched this sooo many times i know the words off by heart, i love this man going to see him in 15 days
Weirdo
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?
I just responded to a thirteen-year-old post now I get why Alanis Morissette is relevant
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.
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 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 🤣
This should be on the top of Google search when you search for "ironic". It sums up the way people misuse it perfectly.
living in High Wycombe, i can confirm it's not a nice place :P
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I studied English most of my life!!... And I only know the difference between a metaphor and a simile thanks to Mr Byrne
I remember watching this when it aired originally and forgetting about it until years later when I remembered it was Ed Byrne.
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.
can't remember mock the week, have seen quite a few buzzcocks, but not the ones with ed.
is he a regular on mock the week? i think i saw him in a show about a year ago!
He is good. That's ok, she's Forgiven.
Ah, I see what you did there
Funnily enough, Alanis Morissette did have a subsequent song called 'Thank You', though 'for not smoking' isn't in the lyrics!
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 love this video so much! Ed Byrne is a legend!
Where exactly is the misogyny in this video?
Her songs are all written by several writers also. Several writers send songs into producers and once on an album they are placed as co written with the singer and the producer.
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
I was looking for this guy ... i saw him in comedy central and he is great
but i couldnt remember the name. ...
just ED....
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
Great! He's so young and long haired! Love him on MtW.
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.
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
Haa this is good, gotta check some more of this guy.
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.
Our lecturer showed us the song and then this video to show how to distinguish between "unfortunate situation" and "Irony"
Find another lecturer. Seriously. High schoolers can recognize irony.
Ed Byrne used to be funny?
Judging by the amount of videos I've watched recently, I'd say he still is, mate
He's also likened himself to Darlene from Rosanne (Sara Gilbert, also portrayed Lesley Winkle in Big Bang Theory)!
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."
"i was wearing the clever trousers that night" hahaha, i love this guy XD
"CAN YA' FEEL THAT? .. OOH" This sums up working with people in general for me :(
@UniqueFish79 Is that the place that's nice, if anyone is watching, but isn't if they're not? :D
That was brilliant, no doubt there were comedians kicking themselves that they hadnt picked up on it beforehand!
this is my favourite ed byrne routine EVER!!
@Redstar226 Nah you search simile on youtube. I couldn't find one person who pronounced it so strongly as 'lay'at the end.
@TheNithal It's released as a single, but originally came off the album.
Anyone notice a similarity between him and Jimmy Rabbite (the Commitments)?
Bill Hicks is American and the best comedian ever. Problem is though that he was more popular in Europe than in the US, so...
here's alanis morissette with her new single, 'dhtahh,' taken from her new album, 'hmmmmmm'
damn. i love him.
@GuitarSlinger26 YOu can find him sometimes on Mock the Week.
@z3r0t0l3r4ns Yes you do! He's doing another tour in a month or so called Crowd Pleaser that you may be interested in :-)
a simile is not a metaphor, they're both ways of describing things in terms of something else but there's a clear distinction: "you are my sun" would by a metaphor while "you shine like the sun" is a simile, they're not interchangeable, not even in one way
Too funny!!! And that's coming from a huge AM fan! Love this guy!
oh wow I am so proud my town got mentioned!! :P he's made me pmsl!!
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.
Rain on your wedding day is only ironic if you're marrying the sun god, Ra.
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
Also the difference between similes and metaphors is:
Metaphor: It's 10,000 spoons when all you need is a knife
Simile: It's LIKE 10,000 spoons when all you need is a knife
this man was in my local pub last night!! VERY nice guy! Funny stuff :)