# WOW, that was some good irony.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-that-was-some-good-irony/614068>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [February 26, 2012, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-that-was-some-good-irony/614068 "2012-02-26T17:59:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2012, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-that-was-some-good-irony/614068/21 "2012-02-27T16:57:40Z")

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THis thread reminds me of one of my favorite _Archer_ quotes

“Its as if O Henry and Alanis Morisette had a baby and named it this exact situation!”

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**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2012, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-that-was-some-good-irony/614068/22 "2012-02-27T17:41:57Z")

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> [@Marley23](#):
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> I don’t think this is really ironic; it’s just sad. The joke in the sketch is that everybody thought Belushi was going to die young because of all the drugs he was doing - to the point where they could make a joke out of it in a sketch and everybody got it. Meanwhile he actually did die young from drugs like people thought he might, unfortunately. The bit about Gilda Radner is even sadder.

I’ve read that most of the cast and crew thought it would be Garrett Morris or Laraine Newman who would die. Like Belushi, they had serious drug problems at the time. But Belushi appeared to be in good health while Morris and Newman appeared to be wasting away. (In the “Don’t Look Back In Anger” sketch, both of their predicted deaths reflect this.)

The irony is that Belushi died and Morris and Newman were able to quit drugs and both are still alive thirty years later.

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**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2012, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-that-was-some-good-irony/614068/23 "2012-02-27T18:00:36Z")

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> [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](#):
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> Turnipseed was at fault.

Nitpick: Turnupseed.

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**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2012, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-that-was-some-good-irony/614068/24 "2012-02-27T18:16:41Z")

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> [@Toucanna](#):
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> Yup. And not only that, but he has a line where he says, “Yeah, they all thought I’d be the first one to go.” : [SNL Transcripts: Art Garfunkel: 03/11/78: Schiller's Reel: Don't Look Back In Anger - SNL Transcripts Tonight](http://snltranscripts.jt.org/77/77manger.phtml)
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> ::shudder::

What the heck kind of skit is that? It sounds so depressing and barely funny at all. Please tell me that watching it was a lot different than reading about it

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**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-that-was-some-good-irony/614068/25 "2012-03-01T21:15:40Z")

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[This](http://www.bonkersinstitute.org/medshow/thalidomide.html) ad for thalidomide is a real ha-ha.

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