Late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel started his Tuesday night monologue with a tearful tribute to his childhood friend and his show's band leader, Cleto Escobedo III.
During a taping of Tuesday’s Jimmy Kimmel Live!, 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.”