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Jimmy Kimmel is returning home for a heartbreaking reason. The Las Vegas native will host \u201cIt\u2019s No Joke,\u201d a night of standup at Jimmy Kimmel\u2019s Comedy Club at The LINQ Promenade on Friday, May 26.<\/p>\n

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Jimmy Kimmel poses with his godson, Joey Porrello, the inspiration for an ALS benefit Kimmel will host at his Las Vegas comedy club on May 26. (Image: KTNV-TV\/Las Vegas<\/em>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The show is a benefit for ALS, the devastating neurodegenerative disease that Kimmel\u2019s 29-year-old godson, Joey Porrello, was diagnosed with last year.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s No Joke\u201d will feature last year\u2019s Oscars host, as well as comics Jeff Ross, Nick Kroll, Sarah Silverman, and “surprise guests” Kimmel says he can’t announce yet. All proceeds from ticket sales will benefit Project ALS, which has raised $110 million to fund ALS research over 23 years.<\/p>\n

\u201cJoey is the kid you want to have,\u201d Kimmel told KTNV-TV\/Las Vegas<\/em> while choking back tears.<\/em> \u201cHe\u2019s smart, he\u2019s nice, he\u2019s funny, he\u2019s an athlete, he\u2019s a soccer player.”<\/p>\n

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Porrello, who is married with two young children, 3-year-old Ottilie and 10-month-old Wally, is a former civil engineer who was forced to quit his job in February. He is slowly losing his ability to communicate. Kimmel graduated from Clark High School in 1985 along with Joey’s father, Tommy Porrello, the son of Tommy Sr., who played trumpet on Neil Diamond\u2019s \u201cSweet Caroline.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

“Jimmy is a great guy who always supports his friends,” Tommy Jr. told Casino.org.<\/em><\/p>\n

The mean survival time after diagnosis with ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease, is 2-5 years.<\/p>\n

“You just can\u2019t imagine that something like this could happen to anyone, really,” Kimmel told KTNV.<\/em> “But to somebody who is so alive, we need to do something about it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Charity Begins at Home<\/h2>\n

Some of Kimmel\u2019s earliest comedy memories growing up in Las Vegas were of Jerry Lewis’ annual Labor Day telethons for the Muscular Dystrophy Association. That event broadcast from the Sahara in Las Vegas until 1982, when it moved to Caesars Palace until 1989.<\/p>\n

That made a big impact on me because my dad loved the telethon,\u201d<\/strong> Kimmel told the Las Vegas Review-Journal.<\/em> \u201cWe would watch it in its entirety, and I\u2019d even go to see it live.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Kimmel opened his 8,000-square-foot Las Vegas comedy club in 2019, 16 years into hosting his late-night ABC-TV talk show. He said he had no trouble lining up a stellar roster willing to forgo a payday for “It’s No Joke.”<\/p>\n

\u201cThe comedy community — we never actually call it that, but we should — is a very charitable group of people,\u201d Kimmel told the R-J. <\/em>\u201cThey\u2019re so quick to offer their help and time.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s No Joke\u201d is limited to 175 tickets starting at $500. Tables for six are also available starting at $6,000. Click here<\/a> for information.<\/p>\n

To read more about Joey Porrello, check out his Instagram<\/em> account @JoeyDoesALS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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