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Jimmy Kimmel Pays Tribute To Late Fred Willard On ‘JKL’

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By Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TV Actor-comedian Fred Willard passed away on Friday at the age of 86. Over the past several years, he had made frequent appearances on ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live, playing a-gallery of colorful characters.

Tonight, Kimmel remembered Willard on his ABC show. “Tonight’ show – will be a special show – it will be a sad show. But we will also laugh a lot as we pay tribute to a lovely and genuinely funny man named Fred Willard,” Kimmel said at the top of the episode.

Kimmel shared a childhood memory of watching a talk show parody program starring Martin Mull and Fred Willard when he was five.

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