Adapted from "Irony and Sarcasm" by Roger Kreuz (MIT Press, 2020). Reprinted with permission from MIT Press. In February 1996, Alanis Morissette released the fourth single from “Jagged Little Pill,” ...

Irony sadly, is becoming a lost art form. By definition, irony is a situation that is strange or funny because things happen in a way that seems the opposite of what you expected. English romance poet ...

My first attempts at sarcasm were clumsy and too frequent. As my humor got darker and sharper, the barriers of entry into the grown-up world lowered—it was a rite of passage. Sarcasm filed and defined ...

Jump into your DeLorean time machine for a moment and let's travel back to the year 1996. Tickle Me Elmo is the hot Christmas item people are fighting over. Oprah just announced her first Oprah's Book ...

From comically misplaced signs to unfortunate accidents, we've rounded up some of the best examples of irony the internet has to offer. We’ve all been in situations before where the irony before us is ...

Irony has a special place in the human psyche. Otherwise mundane concepts suddenly come to life when they’re recognized to have an ironic quality. British comedian David Mitchell captures this ...