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The show's house band is Cleto and the Cletones, led by saxophonist Cleto Escobedo III, a childhood friend of Kimmel.

Other members of the band are Cleto Escobedo Jr. ( the bandleader's father, on tenor and alto saxophone ), Jeff Babko ( keyboards ), Toshi Yanagi ( guitar ), Jimmy Earl ( bass ), and Jonathan Dresel ( drums ).

Like other talk shows with live bands, Cleto and the Cletones play the show's opening and closing themes and plays into and out of commercial breaks ( they usually play through the entire break for the studio audience ).

The show's opening theme was written by Les Pierce of America's Next Top Model Theme fame, Jonathan Kimmel and Cleto Escobedo III and sung by the late Robert Goulet.