Various experimental studies have determined that irony comprehension terms require a hint to another representation, like an utterance or thought, and flagrant contextual deficiency, also referred to as violating of a Gricean maxim. This paper uses the relevance-theoretic model of inferential comprehension to explore the role of these terms, and more generally, of the suggestion literally voiced by an ironic utterance in leading the hearer through the interpretation process. Amid cases in which flagrant contextual deficiency is highly eminent, special consideration is given to absurd ironies, like “I’m the Queen of Sheba”, which have been argued to echo the inanity of the previous speech act, and to refer to previously uttered thoughts. The paper tries to atone the “direct access” with the “graded salience” perspective on irony processing.