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Clean Getaway Comedy Presents: Comedian Joey I.LO.

Clean Getaway Comedy is proud to present our next performer. Comedian Joey I.L.O. is officially our next amazing comedy act. Tickets are on sale now! It's all happening at The Bridge Church building at 2101 Market St, Wilmington, NC 28403 on Friday November 9th at 8:00pm! Doors open at 7:15. See you then!

As always, a large portion of the proceeds will be going to the Open Gate Domestic Violence Shelter. For more about The Open Gate Domestic Violence Shelter, you can visit their site here - https://www.domesticviolence-wilm.org/the-open-gate/

To say that comedy is in Joey ILOs blood wouldnt be far from the truth. He was, after all, raised by honest-to-goodness clowns! Never a stranger to the stage, Joey started performing as a musician and song writer when he was 11-years-old. At age 26 he decided to follow in his parents (oversized) footsteps and begin a career in comedy. In his first year as a comedian Joey was named the regional winner of the Sierra Mist Search for the Next Great Comic and appeared on NBCs Last Comic Standing Season 5. Joeys a high energy comic whos been touring coast to coast. His unique perspective and family experiences are as unique as his last name. Joeys vision is to do a clean show so that anyone and everyone in the family can enjoy and not just a certain group of people.

Born in Racine, Wisconsin, his father was a cop, a clown and a Christian and what is funny is that a lot of people like to run away from cops, clowns and Christians. Joey was never afraid of any of those things and embraced them. Well two out of three anyway, he gets in trouble when he tries to hug cops.

Joey suffered a massive stroke at age 21 but that led to the correct diagnosis of a rare muscle disease (familial periodic paralysis). Instead of staying at home with his parents Joey moved to Minnesota for treatment at Mayo clinic. He has overcome a lot physically and still put out two music albums, toured, finished college and started a comedy career. He is now married and has a beautiful healthy baby girl.