{"id":2161339,"date":"2025-11-17T08:28:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T08:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2161339"},"modified":"2025-11-17T08:28:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T08:28:13","slug":"last-week-tonight-with-john-oliver-pays-tribute-to-late-jimmy-kimmel-live-bandleader-cleto-escobedo-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/last-week-tonight-with-john-oliver-pays-tribute-to-late-jimmy-kimmel-live-bandleader-cleto-escobedo-iii\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Last Week Tonight With John Oliver\u2019 Pays Tribute to Late \u2018Jimmy Kimmel Live\u2019 Bandleader Cleto Escobedo III"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cJimmy Kimmel Live\u201d bandleader Cleto Escobedo III<\/a>, who died last week at 59, was honored on Sunday night during the opening credits of \u201cLast Week Tonight With John Oliver<\/a>\u201d: A photo of Escobedo<\/a>, with his saxophone, was spotted under the word \u201cmaestro.\u201d<\/p>\n

Oliver<\/a> and team frequently use the last image in their credits before cutting to the host behind his desk to honor a newsmaker from the previous week \u2014 and given the tight camaraderie that exists among the late night shows, it\u2019s probably no surprise that \u201cLast Week Tonight\u201d would want to recognize a fallen colleague.<\/p>\n

Kimmel announced Escobedo…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cJimmy Kimmel Live\u201d bandleader Cleto Escobedo III, who died last week at 59, was honored on Sunday night during the opening credits of \u201cLast Week Tonight With John Oliver\u201d: A photo of Escobedo, with his saxophone, was spotted under the word \u201cmaestro.\u201d Oliver and team frequently use the last image in their credits before cutting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2161340,"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-2161339","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\/\u2018Last-Week-Tonight-With-John-Oliver-Pays-Tribute-to-Late.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161339","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=2161339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2161341,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161339\/revisions\/2161341"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2161340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2161339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2161339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2161339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}