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Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

Awesome Video Of The Day

Legion of Rock Stars - “Lookin’ Out My Back Door”

One time I got drunk at a bowling alley with some friends and pumped like $10 into a jukebox. We started off with some Limp Bizkit, then worked our way through Korn, Kid Rock and that one song where the guy’s all “OOOH WEH-EH-EH-EH! C’MON, GET DOWN WITH THE SICKNESS!” Then we tried to play some more Limp Bizkit, but by that point we were the only ones left in the place and the guy who worked there was so annoyed that he decided to close the bowling alley two hours early and kicked us out.

It’s easy to appreciate unbelievably shitty music in an ironic fashion, but these videos by Legion of Rock Stars are kind of challenging in a way: I can’t tell if I’m enjoying them ironically or not. I think they might totally kick ass, which is weird because I know in my heart that they totally suck.

This is all so confusing.

I guess I need to think of it like “If I played this at a bowling alley, would I be playing it ironically or not?” I think that I genuinely like it, but after years of claiming to like everything from “Chronic The Hemphog” t-shirts to Ernest Goes To Jail my irony detector is completely fried.

I’d also recommend checking out their covers of “Too Legit To Quit,” “Time Of The Season,” and “Anyway You Want It.” Or maybe I’d recommend that you DON’T check them out. I don’t even know anymore. Whatever - at least it’s not Korn.

Strike While the Irony Is Hot

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007

syvpsmy2.gifI think I remember being told by someone recently that we live in “The Age of Irony”—possibly it was the ambulance driver who ran me over, or the doctor at Planned Parenthood who knocked up my girlfriend—and if the news media is any indication, it’s true:

‘Saw’ Star’s Son Has Ironic Halloween Costume
‘Saw IV’ villain Tobin Bell’s creepy movie puppet sidekick Billy is such a hit in his household, the actor’s young son will hit the streets at Halloween dressed like him.

Now, the son of the star of Saw dressing up as a character from Saw is about as ironic as the son of a fireman dressing up as a fireman, or the son of Dick Cheney dressing up as an asshole, or the son of Tom Cruise dressing up as a batshit-crazy gay dude. Which is to say, not ironic at all.

Now, with a little knowledge of what the word “ironic” means, it’s not that difficult to come up with plenty of costumes that fit the definition more accurately. For example:

  • Marion Jones’ son dressing up as a urine sample
  • Sen. Larry Craig’s son dressing up as a men’s room
  • A nappy-headed ho dressing up as Don Imus
  • Woody Allen’s daughter dressing up as his wife, and vice-versa
  • Britney Spears’ kids dressing up as underwear
  • That Halo 3 guy’s son dressing up as Mario
  • Nouri al-Maliki’s son dressing up as Muqtada al-Sadr (Mom will never let him hear the end of that one!)
  • Michael Vick’s son dressing up as a pit bull and then biting Michael Vick’s balls off
  • George W. Bush dressing up as a pilot and announcing “Mission Accomplished,” despite the mission clearly not being accomplished (oh, you master of irony, you!), and
  • A guy who writes for Cracked dressing up as Sylvester P. Smythe, and then getting his ass kicked by a guy dressed as Alfred E. Neuman