This chapter explores the expansive or creative dimensions of irony within language and narrative structure. Drawing on a rich array of examples, from the Hebrew prophet Isaiah’s denunciation of idolatry to Taika Waititi’s satirical anti-racism campaign, the chapter affirms irony’s ability to generate meaning that exceeds its narrative staging. Irony, by its nature, is self-referential, unsaying what is said; yet this negation fosters new insights and implications beyond what is apparent or assumed. This generative capacity aligns with Charles Taylor’s interpretation of the constitutive dimension of language, in shaping human activities and concerns rather than simply subverting these things. A further exploration of irony’s role in New Testament witness gives definition to this expansive dimension as comic. Engaging Dan Otto Via’s interpretation of New Testament kerygma (witness), the chapter presents Christian faith as an ironic grammar in which loss yields an unexpected surplus of gain. This comic-ironic mode is affirmed as a heuristic process, offering an approach to experiences of contradiction and loss that move through tragedy, to affirm the very possibility of transformation.