{"id":2150824,"date":"2025-11-12T06:39:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T06:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2150824"},"modified":"2025-11-12T06:39:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T06:39:08","slug":"jimmy-kimmel-fights-back-tears-to-give-hardest-monologue-of-his-career-were-going-to-take-the-next-couple-of-nights-off-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/jimmy-kimmel-fights-back-tears-to-give-hardest-monologue-of-his-career-were-going-to-take-the-next-couple-of-nights-off-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Kimmel Fights Back Tears to Give \u2018Hardest\u2019 Monologue of His Career: \u2018We\u2019re Going to Take the Next Couple of Nights Off\u2019 | Video"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jimmy Kimmel<\/a> paid tribute to his longtime friend and bandleader Cleto Escobedo III<\/a> during Tuesday night\u2019s monologue.<\/p>\n

The comedian struggled to fight back tears as he opened \u201cJimmy Kimmel Live,\u201d sharing with his audience that he lost someone very dear to him.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve been on the air for almost 23 years and I\u2019ve had to do some hard monologues along the way,\u201d Kimmel started off. \u201cBut this one\u2019s the hardest because late last night, early this morning, we lost someone very special who was much too young to go. And I\u2019d like to tell you about him, if you don\u2019t mind.\u201d<\/p>\n

As Kimmel continued, he recalled first meeting Escobedo<\/a>,…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Jimmy Kimmel paid tribute to his longtime friend and bandleader Cleto Escobedo III during Tuesday night\u2019s monologue. The comedian struggled to fight back tears as he opened \u201cJimmy Kimmel Live,\u201d sharing with his audience that he lost someone very dear to him. \u201cWe\u2019ve been on the air for almost 23 years and I\u2019ve had to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2150825,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2150824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Jimmy-Kimmel-Fights-Back-Tears-to-Give-\u2018Hardest-Monologue-of.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2150824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2150824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2150824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2150826,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2150824\/revisions\/2150826"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2150825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2150824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2150824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2150824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}