
Things have been incredibly up and down for me as a viewer of Jimmy Kimmel lately. First, there was a huge controversy over some comments he made about Charlie Kirk, which led to him being off the air for a week. Honestly, the reaction felt unusually strong for TV. But then, when he came back, his show had the biggest audience it’s seen in years! It was amazing to see. Sadly, right after that, we learned about the passing of Cleto Escobedo III, his bandleader who’d been with the show forever. It really made me wonder if Kimmel would even continue, especially since he’d previously talked about thinking about what the future held for him.