Kumail Nanjiani
Like almost everyone on this list, the Eternals actor appears as himself during the final minutes of episode 5. He sits next to The Boys executive producer Seth Rogen during the group’s card game and discusses Vought’s capture of Aziz Ansari, Macaulay Culkin, Joaquin Phoenix, Kiefer Sutherland, Benedicts Wong and Cumberbatch, and even Meryl Streep.
Rogen and Kumail Nanjiani are connected through mutual colleagues in the comedy world, such as director Judd Apatow, who produced Nanjiani’s award-winning movie, The Big Sick.
Seth Rogen
Rogen tells Homelander they already met at the premiere of one of Black Noir’s movies, Silent Vengeance 3: Vengeance Reloaded, but Homelander clearly can’t remember the encounter.
In reality, it would probably be hard for most of The Boys’ cast and crew to forget Rogen, who has been an executive producer on the hit show since 2016, along with his longtime collaborator, Evan Goldberg. The Pineapple Express star has made minor cameos on the mothership show before, and has also produced several spinoffs in the franchise, including Gen V and Diabolical.
Here, Rogen amusingly suggests that getting Lena Dunham to write a piece for The Atlantic will draw more eyes to the plight of people being rounded up into Vought’s “freedom” camps, but he seems to be playing both sides, as he tells Homelander that he’s planning to testify before Congress that Post Malone is a suspected Starlighter.
Christopher Mintz-Plasse
Breaking out in 2007’s Superbad (co-written by and also starring Rogen) where he starred as the iconic Fogell a.k.a. McLovin, Christopher Mintz-Plasse previously made an appearance as another fictional version of himself in Rogen’s 2013 apocalyptic comedy horror, This Is the End, with an ensemble cast that also boasted Jonah Hill, Jay Baruchel, Danny McBride, Craig Robinson, and Michael Cera.
