Joe Friedman

Everybody loves ice cream, but not many love it as much as Joe. Since his first day in “Banana Splits,” an ice cream themed group therapy for kids with divorced parents at his Jewish Day School in Rockville, Maryland, he was hooked. The realization: in the best of times or the worst of times, ice cream makes everything better.

Fast forward to 2015: Joe and his friends concoct the ultimate motivation for audiences to attend their weekly comedy show—free ice cream—and thus began The Ice Cream Joint, featuring Chicago’s best up and coming stand-up comedians and musicians.

In 2018, Joe made a resolution to document himself eating ice cream every day for a year, setting off on his 365 Day Ice Cream Challenge. Covering over 100 different shops across 25 different states on a froZen honeymoon with his favorite food, encapsulated in his series, Joe Loves Ice Cream.