Season 13, Episode 2 🥣
Show Description:Remember your first happy hour? Saturday mornings — when you’d wake up with the sun, grab a bowl of chocolatey cereal, and lose yourself in a world of cartoons, commercials, and pure, unfiltered joy. We’re still chasing that feeling, one episode at a time.
This week, we get
topical (for once) and stay up late to talk
late night TV — its past, its present, and whether it even has a future. Can late night survive in a world where everything’s a clip, a stream, or a meme? Can it still take on attacks on free speech from
President Moldamort? And what happens when the hosts themselves go podcasting?
To help us make sense of it all, we’re joined by
Al Madrigal — comedian, actor, writer, producer, and veteran of
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. You’ve seen him in
Night School with Kevin Hart,
The Way Back with Ben Affleck, and you might even have his comic book
Primos on your shelf (if you were lucky enough to grab the first printing).
Fresh off his appearance at
San Diego Comic-Con 2025’s “Real Stories, Real People” panel, Al sat down with our own
Saturday Morning Cereal co-host Johnny Heck for a one-on-one press room roundtable interview. Between the Comic-Con chaos and the cereal talk, we got into his time on
The Daily Show, the wild evolution of late-night TV, his leap into podcasting, and what still makes him laugh after all these years.
So pour another bowl, stay up way past your bedtime, and join
Grim Shea, Marke, and Johnny Heck as we get nostalgic for the talk shows that raised us — and wonder if they’ll ever be that good again.
🥣Saturday Morning Cereal — the show that celebrates the themes of Saturday Morning TV that we not only grew up with, but that grew up with us.
We talk with the talent and creatives who continue to shape the pop culture we love.
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