The Chronicle of irony and sarcastic humour: There's two main types of bad sarcasm. The first kind is where no one knows you're being sarcastic. This lands you in a real life Poe’s law where you need to convince people after the fact you were being sarcastic. Not funny. The second kind of bad sarcasm is where you need to completely change the way you say something just so people know you're being sarcastic.