Overview
- The Nov. 17 opening titles listed the house band as "The Cletones," replacing "Cleto and the Cletones" for the first time in the show's 23-year run.
- The change honors bandleader Cleto Escobedo III, who died Nov. 11 at 59, a loss Kimmel announced on Instagram before a tearful monologue that night.
- A Los Angeles County death certificate lists cardiogenic shock as the immediate cause, with underlying causes including vasodilatory shock, disseminated intravascular coagulation and alcoholic cirrhosis, and contributing conditions such as sepsis, graft-versus-host disease, immunosuppression, chronic kidney disease and pneumonia.
- Production was paused on Nov. 12–13 following his death, with the show returning to air before the weekend.
- Escobedo founded the band in 1995, led the Jimmy Kimmel Live! ensemble since 2003, and performed alongside his father, Cleto Escobedo Jr.