Chris Rock roasts Meghan Markle's complaints about Royals: 'It was not racism; it was just some in-law s***'

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By stefan armitage

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Chris Rock's new Netflix comedy special is finally here - and he's taking no prisoners when it comes to his brutal style of comedy.

One star who was the subject of Rock's jokes was Suits star Meghan Markle, who has hit headlines in recent years for her marriage to Prince Harry and the couple's subsequent allegations against the Royal Family.

Perhaps the most infamous example of this was the 41-year-old's interview with the legendary Oprah Winfrey back in 2021.

During their candid talk, Markle alleged that there were concerned raised to Prince Harry about how dark Archie's skin color would be prior to his birth.

She said: "In those months when I was pregnant, all around this same time, so we have in tandem the conversation of, 'You won’t be given security, not gonna be given a title' and also concerns and conversations about how dark his skin might be when he’s born."

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Harry then revealed that the questions were along the lines of: "What will the kids look like?"

This was plenty of ammo for Rock's new Netflix special, Selective Outrage, which saw Rock take aim at Markle and her allegations against the Royals.

During the show, 58-year-old Rock tells the crowd: "Like who is this girl Meghan Markle? Seems like a nice lady, just complaining."

He then quips: "Like, didn't she hit the light-skinned lottery?"

Mocking the Duchess of Sussex's Oprah interview, Rock continued: "'They're so racist, they're so racist' - Some of that s*** she went through was not racism. It was just some in-law s***.

"Sometimes it's just some in-law s***, because she's complaining, I'm like 'What the f*** is she talking about?'"

"'Oprah, they're so racist they wanted to know how brown the baby was going to be,'" Rock continued. "I'm like, 'That's not racist, because even Black people want to know how brown the baby going to be.'"

The comedian continued: "I know what she's going through. I know what Meghan Markle's going through. I know her dilemma: Black girl trying to be accepted by her white in-laws. Oh it's hard. It's so hard, it's very hard... but it ain't as hard as a white girl trying to be accepted by her Black in-laws. Now that s*** is really hard.

"Meghan Markle, I know the dilemma. I'm like, 'If you Black and you wanted to be accepted by your white in-laws then you need to marry a Kardashian because they accept everybody.'"

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Elsewhere in the show, Rock also addressed the infamous Oscars slap - and mercilessly tore into Will Smith and wife Jada.

The comedian then told the audience that "everybody knows what the f**k happened" and that he "had nothing to do with that".

"For people that don’t know, well everybody knows, but Will Smith’s wife was f***ing her son’s friend. Okay? I normally would not talk about this s**t, but, for some reason, they put it on the internet."

Rock's jokes about Markle also come shortly after she and husband Harry were brutally teased in a recent South Park episode.

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