Jimmy Kimmel tribute to Fred Willard: ‘He had a light inside him’

nypost.com:

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.

Monday night, Kimmel remembered Willard on his ABC show. “Tonight’s 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.

Kimmel went on to list some of Willard’s most memorable film and TV roles in Christopher Guest’s “Waiting for Guffman” and “Best in Show,” the “Anchorman”