11/13/2025
This is what true friendship looks like, I lost my best friend in 2008. She was only 55 and still think of her every day.
Jimmy Kimmel broke down in tears while honoring his friend and late bandleader Cleto Escobedo III . The show will take “the next couple of nights off” in the wake of Escobedo’s death.
“We’ve been on the air for almost 23 years, and I’ve had to do some hard monologues along the way. But this one’s the hardest because late last night, early this morning, we lost someone very special who was much too young to go, and I’d like to tell you about him, if you don’t mind... There was a boy who lived on my block. He lived across the street and two houses over. He was a little over a year older than me. His name was Cleto, but we all called him junior. Eventually, we met and became friends. And not just regular friends. We became 24/7, ‘Mom, please let me sleep over, please,’ kind of friends. One summer, I slept over at the Escobedo house 33 nights in a row. My mother used to make me get down on my knees and beg to sleep at his house in front of him. And I would gladly do it, because we were never bored. We were always up to something."
Read more here: https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/jimmy-kimmel-tears-tribute-bandleader-cleto-escobedo-1236574154/
