Posted on 11/11/2025 3:29:36 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Heartbroken Jimmy Kimmel has announced the death of his childhood friend and Jimmy Kimmel Live! bandleader, Cleto Escobedo III.
Writing on Instagram, Kimmel shared: 'Early this morning, we lost a great friend, father, son, musician and man, my longtime bandleader Cleto Escobedo III.'
'To say that we are heartbroken is an understatement. Cleto and I have been inseparable since I was nine years old,' the late night host said in a statement.
'The fact that we got to work together every day is a dream neither of us could ever have imagined would come true,' Kimmel added.
'Cherish your friends and please keep Cleto's wife, children and parents in your prayers.'
Escobeda's death Tuesday aged, 59, explains the reason why Kimmel abruptly canceled his show last Thursday.
Kimmel was reportedly seen at a hospital after missing that show, exchanging emotional hugs outside a Los Angeles hospital, with his long-time friend's father Cleto Escobedo Jr., a musician in his house band Cleto and the Cletones, outside a hospital in Los Angeles on November 6.
Saxophonist Cleto Jr., 82, his wife Sylvia, 80, and Kimmel's wife Molly McNearney, 47 met each other in the hospital parking lot.
Jimmy Kimmel announced the death of his childhood friend and Jimmy Kimmel Live! bandleader, Cleto Escobedo III, on Instagram
The announcement said the pair had been inseparable since they were nine years old and expressed gratitude that they had been able to work together on the late night show
Kimmel and Cleto III grew up on the same block in Las Vegas - memories so cherished that the late night host later named his company, Meadow Lark Lane Productions, after the street where they lived
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Brokeback band leader ?
I heard his fellow band mates killed him. Nice crocodile tears there, though, Jimmy. Almost as if you’re mourning the death of a goldfish.
Whatever happened to his best friend that was a chef for Jeffrey Epstein but then he never heard of?
Lol. That moron is back on his show? The studio got no brains at all or maybe the Fabian forces are covering the losses. Blackrock wants a world steeped in sex perversion. They are probably enabling the insane losses the wokesters like Disney are enduring.
And a uno y a dos, The polka king of Matamoros, what a gigantico Cleto was sniff
It would have been a lot worse had he not been fully valued and boosted. RIP.
Vaxxed
I couldn’t decide what to snack on during that movie; foot long hot dogs or jolly ranchers.
“Nice crocodile tears there, though, Jimmy. Almost as if you’re mourning the death of a goldfish”
And then there is Kimmels wife, as hard as it is to believe even more of a insufferable putz than lil’ pea brained Jimmy.
Poor Jimmy.
No idea. You'd have to ask a viewer, assuming you can find one.
Who is Jimmy Kimmel? That guy from The Man Show?
Complications stemming from a liver transplant.
Medusa. Were her leg hairs tiny snakes?
Asking for Perseus. (He just kept the head)
Why wasn’t it the Jimmy?
Rumor has it that the report came in at warp speed from another cosmic realm to Jimmy Kimmel...
“He’s dead Jim...”
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