Yo Dawg for Sho(es)
While watching an unsuccessful attempt to pelt Turkish PM Erdoğan with a shoe, BBC was nice enough to recommend a few other shoe-related stories to me.
Not sure if this made the rounds in the US, but the Iraqi shoe thrower actually had a shoe thrown at him, which I don’t think constitutes irony but certainly qualifies as funny. I think “apt” is the right word.
Internet pedanticism has really ruined a useful term there.