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“We’ve been on the air for almost 23 years, and I’ve had to do some hard monologues along the way,” Kimmel said through tears at the top of the show. “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.” (Watch the monologue in full above.)\u00a0<\/p>\n
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