This update to "Ironic" is a beautiful thing

There's nothing better than a celebrity willing to make fun of herself. If only more of them (and human beings in general) understood this.

Authentic self deprecation is such a courageous and beautiful thing. 

In this spirit is Alanis Morissette's update to "Ironic" on The Late Late Show is one of my favorite things on the Internet in a while.

It helps that I love James Corden, too. 

It’s ironic, damn it. Or close enough.

Anyone who criticizes Alanis Morissette’s song Ironic for its lack of irony is an intellectual douche bag. It’s a four minute pop song. It need not be held up to any literary standard.

Yes, “ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife” is not ironic by the truest definition of the word, but it seems pretty damn ironic to me.