Amy Poehler’s show joked about R. Kelly peeing on Blue Ivy & people are angry

Amy Poehler is in trouble for a wildly inappropriate joke she made on her new Hulu show, Difficult People. As a comedian, Amy pushes boundaries. That’s just part of the gig. Unfortunately, someone went too far and wrote a suggestive remark about Beyonce and Jay-Z’s three year-old daughter, Blue Ivy Carter. The joke made a reference to R.Kelly’s proclivities as they might pertain to Blue Ivy. The “joke” read, “I wrote that thing about Blue Ivy and now the Internet is being really mean to me. Unfollow … I can’t wait for Blue Ivy to be old enough so R. Kelly can piss on her.”

This is bad, oh so bad. People on the Internet freaked out, and some demanded that the entire show be pulled from Hulu. Way back in the day (2002), R. Kelly was accused of peeing on an underage girl. He was found not guilty, but the reputation stuck. At first glance, it’s easy to think Amy may not have written the joke.

However, an actor from the show recently sat down to praise Poehler with Entertainment Weekly. The person meant well but pretty much incriminated Amy, at least in terms of writing approval: “Amy could not have been more hands-on. She did not only give notes on every script, she gave notes on every draft of every outline.” Uh-oh. Yes, Twitter had a few things to say to Poehler:

A joke about R. Kelly assaulting Blue Ivy is not a joke targeting him. It's making light of what he did and punching down at his victims

— jamilah (@JamilahLemieux) August 17, 2015

"Is Blue Ivy old enough for R. Kelly?"@smrtgrls, how do you have a site dedicated to girls, and OK that line?

— Cynthia F. (@cynfinite) August 17, 2015

Amy Poehler would've never let this joke fly about a three year old White girl. NEVER

— Miss Ann Dri (@OHTheMaryD) August 17, 2015

I really love Amy Poehler. Like truly with my whole Grinch heart, but that joke she ok'd for her show about Blue Ivy is just tasteless

— Nola Darling (@WESTCOASTSUMA) August 17, 2015

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