Theology 101: Is it a parable or a very subtle joke?

Seeing this post about Alanis Morrisette's 'Ironic' on Crooked Timber reminded me of a theory about why the universe is the way it is I had while watching Dogma the other night.

God, as we know, is Alanis Morrissette (this does not, however, mean that Alanis Morrissette is God). Legions of philosophers have discussed the situation and realised that Alanis Morrissette isn't really aware of the distinction between real irony and things that are just annoying. Now, if we assume that God has a basic Alanis Morrisette-ness, we can also attribute to God an inability ot distinguish between irony and things that are just annoying. Hence, bad things happen because God thinks he/she/it/them (delete according to your superstitious preference) is/are actually being ironic (at least as he/she/it/they understands it), not just causing bad things to happen.

From this we can deduce that either God doesn't understand irony, or that the humans concept of it differs from the divine one. A further thought is that this may merely be confirmation of the earlier Gahan Hypothesis: that God's got a sick sense of humour.