Late night host Jimmy Kimmel on Tuesday paid tribute to his lifelong friend and bandleader, Cleto Escobedo III, who died earlier in the day. He was 59. “We’ve been on the air for almost 23 years and I’ve had to do some hard monologues along the way,” Kimmel said as he fought his way through tears. “But this one’s the hardest.”

"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."

After a rough monologue last night, Jimmy Kimmel announces the show is taking a few days off.

The late-night host didn’t address his absence from last Thursday’s show, which was scheduled to feature guests David Duchovny, Joe Keery, and Madison Beer. In its place, ABC re-aired the October 28 episode featuring guests Tessa Thompson , Daymond John, and The Beths.

Jimmy Kimmel has returned to the airwaves after an episode was unexpectedly pulled from ABC’s late-night lineup last week. Kimmel, 57, hosted a brand-new show on Monday, November 10, kicking off an '80s-themed week with guests George Clooney,

Jimmy Kimmel laid into Senate Democrats for compromising with Republicans on health care to end the government shutdown.

Jimmy Kimmel and his wife Molly McNearney opened up about the moment they told their children “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” had been suspended. In September, ABC temporarily pulled Kimmel off the air following comments he made in his monologue regarding the death of Charlie Kirk.