Why is "...there’s two in martini!" funny?
From Friends: The One with the Ultimate Fighting Champion
[Scene: Chandler’s office, he is just finishing a meeting with his boss.]
Doug: So thanks for the warm welcome. It’s good to have you guys on my team, and I come to play. I hope you do too. Now, let’s go out there and get ‘em! Huh? And remember, there is no ‘I’ in team.
Chandler: Yes, but there’s two in martini, so everybody back to my office!
Everyone laughs at this point. So what is the joke I am missing?
Best Answer
The phrase "There's no I in team" goes back to 1960's America and basically means that while teams are made up of individuals, everyone needs to work together as if they were a single entity.
Chandler is making a joke about the fact that they can bond as a team over a "martini lunch" in his office. This is doubly funny because not only is he mocking his new boss (and his clichéd turn of phrase) but because it's also deeply frowned-upon for office workers to drink at work (in the US) during the daytime.
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Doug: So thanks for the warm welcome. It’s good to have you guys on my team, and I come to play. I hope you do too. Now, let’s go out there and get ‘em! Huh? And remember, there is no ‘I’ in team.
Chandler: Yes, but there’s two in martini, so everybody back to my office!
It is a simple joke:
Doug is using "I" as the first person singular, and quoting an adage.
But Chandler is punning on "I", and suggesting everyone go back to his office for drinks by saying,
"...but there are two (I's) in martini,..."
martInI has two letter I's.
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