Jimmy Kimmel Live! returned to the air on November 17 following its hiatus after the death of bandleader, and Jimmy Kimmel 's best friend, Cleto Escobedo III . Cleto's death was announced on Tuesday, November 11, and it was revealed that the musician's official cause of death at 59 was cardiogenic shock. Upon the show's return on Monday, a notable change had been made to the opening credits, as the house band was billed simply as The Cletones, instead of their previous moniker, Cleto and the Cletones, according to LateNighter.com .

The change comes after Jimmy explained that the show would go on break "for a couple nights," during his tearful opening monologue on the day Cleto died. Jimmy admitted that he's "had to do some hard monologues" on his show, "but this one's the har

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