Why the audience laugh when Joey say Holden McGroin in "Friends"?!
Question:
Why the audience laugh when Joey say Holden McGroin in "Friends"?
Hi, guys, at the end of Episode 21, Season 1 of Friends, there is a dialogue as following:
Casting Director No. 2: Next. (Joey walks onstage)
Joey: Hi, uh, I'll be reading for the role of Mercutio.
Casting Director No. 2: Name?
Joey: Holden McGroin.
I failed to understand why the audience laugh at this dialogue, which, i guess, probably, related to the name-culture in America...
Thanks for your help! :)
Answers:
The joke was set-up earlier when Chandler suggested that Joey use Benito Mussolini as his stage name. Of course, Joey doesn't know that this is the name of the infamous Italian dictator. So in the final scene when he says "Holden McGroin", we realize that poor, clueless Joey has been fooled once again.