Irony Irony

Yes, you read that right. "Irony irony" is a real category on this site - examples of irony about irony itself. If you've ever wondered whether a site about irony could be ironic, or whether the very concept of irony is somehow ironic, you're in the right place. We have 1,758 examples and we're honestly not sure what that says about us, or the English language, or the universe. Probably all three.

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  1. Is it ironic that A very religious woman has a daughter who turns out to be homosexual?

    58% not ironic 4 votes Vote →
  2. Is it ironic that We are raffling off an Apple iTouch at our school's turn of the technology week!

    63% ironic 4 votes Vote →
  3. Is it ironic that A man turned 98, won the lottery and died the next day?

    80% not ironic 4 votes Vote →
  4. Is it ironic that Someone sits down where their sister was sitting, not knowing their sister was sitting in the same seat before.

    75% not ironic 4 votes Vote →
  5. Is it ironic that Country A steals everything from country B, then leaves.

    83% not ironic 4 votes Vote →
  6. Is it ironic that A man suffered a heart attack after eating a "triple bypass burger" at the Heart Attack Grill in Las Vegas.

    50% ironic 4 votes Vote →
  7. Is it ironic that A person on a Married and Flirting site demanded fidelity from someone she was flirting with.

    55% ironic 4 votes Vote →
  8. Is it ironic that A girl named chastity flirted with a lot of boys and had sex with them, and she does not care about getting married or finding true love.

    50% ironic 4 votes Vote →
  9. Is it ironic that A friend was rushing to get her package in the mail and her name is patience.

    88% ironic 4 votes Vote →
  10. Is it ironic that I have been moaning about my parents, and now I am listening to my parents moaning about their parents.

    70% ironic 4 votes Vote →
  11. Is it ironic that If somebody bragged that they were a wonderful snowboarder as they were snowboarding, and 1/2 hour later they're taken off the hill on a stretcher?

    70% ironic 4 votes Vote →
  12. Is it ironic that The ending of the film 'book of Eli' where the last remaining bible was in Braille, so Gary, after all that searching and murder, was unable to read it anyway?

    85% ironic 4 votes Vote →
  13. Is it ironic that Che guevara spent his whole life fighting capitalism just to have his picture on a shirt sold at the gap?

    75% ironic 4 votes Vote →
  14. Is it ironic that A person named Violet, but hates the colour violet.

    85% ironic 4 votes Vote →
  15. Is it ironic that Most of these example are voted NOT IRONIC on a site called isitironic?.

    60% not ironic 4 votes Vote →
  16. Is it ironic that People post a Facebook status of how useless and boring it...

    57% ironic 4 votes Vote →
  17. Is it ironic that That, in a case, there are 3 people who do not like each other at all when asked, but together they call each other friends.

    63% not ironic 4 votes Vote →
  18. Is it ironic that An ambulance ran over someone on the way to a call.

    63% ironic 4 votes Vote →
  19. Is it ironic that The same day you buy a new pair of shoes you get in a car accident and your foot gets chopped off.

    58% not ironic 4 votes Vote →
  20. Is it ironic that Two people say they're so in love and a month later they break up???

    75% not ironic 4 votes Vote →
  21. Is it ironic that I start working double shifts and now it gets sunny.

    88% not ironic 4 votes Vote →
  22. Is it ironic that A man who's sentence was changed from death by electric chair to life sentence in jail, died from electrocution as he sat on a metal chair watching his TV as a mouse also on the chair bit through the aerial wire thus killing them both?

    63% ironic 4 votes Vote →
  23. Is it ironic that People were loving "change" when they voted in Obama, but people do not like changes on facebook?

    63% not ironic 4 votes Vote →
  24. Is it ironic that While speaking via telephone recently, a colleague asked me if I could hear him rolling his eyes.

    70% not ironic 4 votes Vote →
  25. Is it ironic that "We thought it had floated into the clouds, even hoped that it had traveled to Africa, but there it was slowly dying in a tree right above my head.

    58% not ironic 4 votes Vote →