Seth Rogen had a creative — and Below Deck-themed answer — when asked for his dream Bravo blunt rotation.
“Wow, that is tough,” Rogen, 43, admitted during the Tuesday, August 12, episode of Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen. “Maybe some of my captains from Below Deck.”
Rogen elaborated on his love for the franchise, adding, “I really like Captain Sandy. I like Captain Lee. And I like that short dude who sails the boat. Not [Captain] Kerry, Captain Glenn!”
Below Deck became a reality TV hit (and franchise) after the first version premiered in 2013. Fans — including some of your favorite celebrities — tune in year-round to watch the lives of crew members who reside and work on a superyacht during charter season. The franchise has since grown with spinoffs including Below Deck Mediterranean, Below Deck Sailing Yacht, Below Deck Down Under and Below Deck Adventure.
Rogen has previously explained why he has such a love for Below Deck.
“I think the moral of Below Deck is, if you rent a yacht, you’re a douchebag. A huge piece of garbage,” he joked on WWHL in 2019. “Because that’s the moral of every episode. [It’s] like, they’re trying, they’re dressing up like f–king idiots for these people, and then no one’s happy enough.”
The actor later revealed he has been offered a chance to appear on a Below Deck charter, sharing on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon in July 2020. “They’re always trying to get me to go on it, which I say no to all the time. I can’t go on it, you look like a d–k no matter what, like, you are the antagonist on the show. You can’t do it.”
Despite his love for the show, Rogen explained why he isn’t interested in being a guest.
“They still want you to pay to go on the cruise! Which is crazy,” he said. “Bravo is literally sending me emails asking me to pay 40 grand to be on an episode of one of their TV shows, which is … psychotic. If that is the business model for Below Deck, I understand why there are so many of them, because that’s a good business.”
Fellow comedian Amy Poehler is another not-so-secret Below Deck viewer.
“I would want to be the captain on Below Deck,” Poehler told Cosmopolitan UK in June 2024. “It would be hard for me to not be the captain, but, again, I do not know how to drive a boat, so I feel like that would get in the way. You wouldn’t know at first. I’d fake it for a couple of days, I think, but then I’d get fired.”
Poehler, 53, explained why she liked the Bravo franchise.
“The reason why I like it is ’cause I like the job that everybody has to do,” she added. “Like, I care about whether or not they turn the boat over. I want to watch them clean the bathrooms and stuff. That’s what I’m into. I don’t get it with reality shows where everyone sits around and there’s no job, they just go to dinner. That gets me very stressed.”
