Late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel started his Tuesday night monologue with a tearful tribute to one of his oldest friends — his show's band leader, Cleto Escobedo III.
Kimmel announced Escobedo's death Tuesday on Instagram, saying, “Heartbroken is an understatement.” Escobedo was 59. His cause of death wasn't immediately known.
During a taping of Tuesday’s show, Kimmel got emotional when he told the audience, “I've had to do some hard monologues along the way, but this will this one's the hardest because late last night, early this morning, we lost someone very special who was much too young to go.”
