Jimmy Kimmel Celebrates Cleto Escobedo s 50th Birthday on Jimmy Kimmel

The segment, which aired on August 24, 2016, was equal parts heartfelt tribute and roast. “I met Cleto in January of 1977 when my family moved from Brooklyn to Las Vegas,” Kimmel recalled. “The first time we met, I was riding a bike wearing boxing gloves and my mother’s sunglasses. Cleto saw me and assumed I was mentally challenged. But we began a lifetime of friendship.”