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Russell Brand reportedly kicked out of party over Nazi comments

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The outspoken and ever controversial comedian Russell Brand was reportedly booted from the nearly $400,000 GQ “Men of the Year” after-party in London Tuesday after making Nazi jibes in protest of the award’s backers Hugo Boss, the Daily Mail reports.

“If anyone knows a bit about history and fashion, you know it was Hugo Boss who made uniforms for the Nazis. … But they looked f**** amazing,” he said.

The 38-year-old spared no one in his four-minute acceptance speech. Targets included the mayor of London, the leader of the UK Labour Party and the audience, but he reserved his sharpest comments for the fashion company, at one point holding his finger under his nose, giving a mock Nazi salute and goose-stepping on-stage.

His actions sparked comments from several other attendees. Author Chris Moore was not impressed and used it as a segue to lambaste Brand for his prank phone call on BBC Radio in 1999 to British actor Andrew Sachs. Brand was fired from the BBC shortly afterwards.

Moore said: “I was very interested when Russell Brand praised the stylishness of the Nazis, because that fits with the fact that they persecuted Sachs in the 1930s when Andrew was a young man, and his family fled to this country. … And then he was persecuted by Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross in their disgusting telephone call.”

“Entourage” star Jeremy Piven also weighed in when he was presenting an award, according to the London Evening News.

“This event is going on longer than my bar mitzvah, and I’ve been sitting in the corner sweating like a Hebrew slave, Piven, who is Jewish, said. “So thank you Russell, for pointing out the people that killed six million of my people.”

Former Oasis frontman Noel Gallagher also used the opportunity to throw a political barb at British Foreign Secretary William Hague who was in attendance. “It’s nice to see the foreign secretary here when there’s s*** going on abroad that needs to be sorted out,” Gallagher said.

In a shocking defeat last week, Prime Minister David Cameron was defeated in his call for military action in Syria over the use of chemical weapons by the Assad regime.

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