onstage during the BET AWARDS '14 at Nokia Theatre L.A. LIVE on June 29, 2014 in Los Angeles, California.
On the heels of various reports concerning his material for his historically live-taped Netflix stand-up special, Selective Outrage, Chris Rock took aim at everyone from Will Smith to Jada Pinkett-Smith and even Meghan Markle.
As The Shade Room previously reported, Chris reportedly prepared for the special by testing out material about Will’s role as an enslaved man in Emancipation. Specifically, Chris was quoted as saying that he only saw the film so he “could watch him getting whipped.”
When the live-streamed Netflix special ultimately went down on Saturday night, Chris not only shared a version of this joke that replaced “whipped” with “whooped,” but he also brought some heat for the “entanglement” that Jada Pinkett Smith had on Will.
Regarding Jada’s “entanglement” with August Alsina, which was discussed between her and Will on Red Table Talk, Chris questioned why “two talented people” would air out their dirty laundry for everyone to know.
“Everybody knows his wife was f**king her son’s friend. Now, I normally would not talk about this s**t. But for some reason, these n***as put that s**t on the internet. I have no idea why two talented people would do something that f**king low down.”
Chris went on to add, “We’ve all been cheated on—everybody in here’s been cheated on. None of us have ever been interviewed by the person that cheated on us on television.”
This was followed by a short bit in which he made an impression of Jada chatting with Will about the situation.
“‘Hey, I was sucking somebody else’s d**k. How did that make you feel?'”
He then acknowledged that Jada “hurt [Will] way more than he hurt me” before saying that Will was on some “b***h-a** s**t” for only getting physical with Chris when “everyone called that man a b***h.” Oop!
“Everyone called that man a b***h..And who’s he hit? Me! A n***a he knows he can beat. That is some b***h-a** s**t.”
Will and Jada weren’t the only ones who Chris took aim at during his comedy set, as he also brought up Meghan Markle’s situation with her in-laws, the British royal family.
He started off by saying that Meghan Markle is “trying to be a victim” after securing “the lightskin lottery.”
“Everybody trying to be a victim. Like what’s this about Meghan Markle? Seems like a nice lady—just complaining. Like, didn’t she hit the lightskin lottery?”
Chris went on to say that Markle’s “acting all dumb” about the family, whom he called “the OGs of racism.”
“Acting all dumb like she don’t know nothing. Going on Oprah, ‘I didn’t know. I had no idea how racist they were.’ It’s the royal family! You didn’t Google these muthaf***as? What the f**k is she talking about ‘She didn’t know?’ It’s the royal family! They’re the original racists! They invented colonialism! They’re the OGs of racism.”
He then offered an analogy to hone in on how underwhelming he found Meghan’s revelation to be, noting, “That’s like marrying into the Budweiser family and going, ‘They drink a lot!'”
Additionally, the comedian proclaimed, “Some of that s**t she went through was not racism. It was just some in-law s**t!”
In response to Chris Rock’s commentary, various people on social media began sounding off and expressing their sentiments, which you can peep down below.
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