Jimmy Kimmel has launched two fundraisers to honor his late finest pal and late night time bandleader Cleto Escobedo III.
The “Jimmy Kimmel Dwell!” host introduced on his Instagram Friday that two fundraisers had been opening as much as causes near Escobedo to “have fun his life and provides again.” The bandleader died earlier this week.
“Cleto was at all times form and keen to assist others,” Kimmel wrote. “As we mourn his loss, we have now began two fundraisers to have fun his life and provides again. The primary is for UCLA Medical Heart the place he acquired such unimaginable care. Collectively we can assist weak sufferers and households in want of monetary help throughout exhausting occasions. And to honor his love of animals, The Animal Basis in our hometown of Las Vegas.”
Kimmel spoke tearfully and passionately about his friendship with Escobedo throughout Tuesday night time’s monologue of “Jimmy Kimmel Dwell!” earlier than asserting the present could be taking a while off.
“We’ve been on the air for nearly 23 years and I’ve needed to do some exhausting monologues alongside the way in which,” Kimmel started the monologue. “However this one’s the toughest as a result of late final night time, early this morning, we misplaced somebody very particular who was a lot too younger to go. And I’d prefer to inform you about him, in the event you don’t thoughts.”
He then defined how the 2 had been nearly inseparable since they had been 9 years previous. Kimmel remembered that he as soon as went 33 nights in a row sleeping at Escobedo’s after they had been children, and after they grew up and he received the late present slot at ABC he knew that he didn’t simply need his finest pal to steer the band however his pal’s father to be part of it too.
“I’ve usually mentioned that the only neatest thing about doing this present was getting the chance to permit Cleto Senior to choose up the place he left off in 1966 and grow to be a musician once more along with his son,” the host added.
Escobedo was 59 when he died.
