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Garland Greene

Define irony. Irony is a bunch of idiots singing a song on plane made famous by a band that died in a plane crash.

— Con Air  ·  1997

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The speaker defines irony with a darkly comic example: a group of fools belting out a song on an aeroplane, when the band that made the song famous died in a plane crash. The humour comes from the grim mismatch between the singing and the song's history.

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