Meghan Markle has once again become the target of late-night comedy, and this time, it's Jimmy Fallon leading the charge. Fallon has now joined the growing list of celebrities who find Meghan's Netflix antics too absurd to ignore. And Meghan? Well, she’s definitely not amused.
It all unfolded on NBC's*The Tonight Show when Fallon's sidekick, Steve Higgins, posed a rather bizarre yet hilarious question during their trivia night segment: Why does Meghan Markle make her own pretzel bags? A mystery so perplexing that even scientists would supposedly struggle to crack the code.
Playing along, Fallon chuckled and added, "That's interesting. She takes it from one bag and puts it in another bag, and that confuses people." The audience erupted in laughter, while Meghan was probably somewhere hurling a monogrammed, organic stress ball at her TV screen.
This all traces back to the now-infamous moment from With Love, Meghan, where she painstakingly transferred prepackaged pretzels into her own personalized plastic bag, sealing it with a decorative string bow—as if she had just revolutionized snack storage.
It appears that Hollywood, once either silent or cautiously supportive of Meghan, has now fully embraced the art of poking fun at her. Some even speculate that this is part of a "humiliation ritual," a necessary initiation before she can reclaim her place in Hollywood's elite circles. But as it stands, the entertainment industry seems to be reveling a little too much in her downfall to let her back in anytime soon.
Meghan was originally slated to appear on *The Tonight Show* twice in 2022, but fate had other plans. Her September appearance was canceled following Queen Elizabeth II’s passing, and then NBC found itself in a "will she, won’t she" fiasco when they mistakenly announced her as a guest for a December show—only for her loyal biographer, Omid Scobie, to swoop in and clarify that Meghan had no such plans.
Meanwhile, her husband Prince Harry has made it onto Fallon's show—though not in the way one might expect. Instead of sitting down for a dignified interview, Harry became the first-ever surprise guest to scream his way through Fallon's haunted house maze.
At this point, Meghan’s entire public persona seems to have turned into prime comedic material for talk show hosts, social media users, and practically anyone with a sense of humor. One Twitter user summed it up best: "Everyone profits from Markle’s brand—except Markle herself. Good on her for being so charitable, providing endless content for comedians, YouTubers, and news agencies alike."
So, what’s next? Will Meghan double down on her image as a refined hostess and start decanting bottled water into monogrammed glass flasks? Or will she send Fallon a carefully repackaged apology pretzel bag—complete with an extra flourish?
