Hollywood is like ‘1930s Germany’ for conservative-leaning actors who are made to feel like pariahs by liberal luvvies, the American comedian Tim Allen told Jimmy Kimmel on Friday.

In his incendiary remarks, Allen went on to claim that Republicans were likely to get ‘beat up’ for expressing views which contradicted the liberal view of the world.

‘You’ve gotta be real careful around here,’ said Allen, 63, who is best known for his 1990s sit-com Home Improvement.

Tim Allen accused Hollywood of hypocrisy, telling Jimmy Kimmel that those who support Trump are bullied by liberal luvvies

‘You get beat up if you don’t believe what everybody believes.

‘This is like ’30s Germany.

‘I don’t know what happened. If you’re not part of the group, “You know what we believe is right”, I go, “Well, I might have a problem with that”.’

The remarks to late night chat show host Jimmy Kimmel are unlikely to win the comic any friends in the Democrat-dominated acting world.

Allen, who provided the voice of Buzz Lightyear in the Toy Story animations, also described attending President Donald Trump’s inauguration in January - an event that was boycotted by entertainers including Celine Dion and British stars Elton John and Charlotte Church.

Allen expressed support for Mr Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign.

He said the billionaire businessman ‘might be able to do the stuff that really needs fixing’.

Mr Allen compared Hollywood to 1930s Germany - a totalitarian period where opinions outside the Nazi orthodox were greeted with violence and persecution

Allen said at the time: ‘Give that guy the roads, bridges, infrastructure, power grid — just have him fix that s*** for four years. He’s good at that.

‘And he’s a businessman so he understands how debt load works.’

And following the election he remarked: ‘What I find odd in Hollywood is that they didn’t like Trump because he was a bully.

‘But if you had any kind of inkling that you were for Trump, you got bullied for doing that. And it gets a little bit hypocritical to me.’

The 1930s in Germany was the period in which the Nazi Party gained power, with Adolf Hitler appointed Chancellor in 1933. The decade saw the establishment of totalitarianism and the removal of political opposition in the run-up to the start of the Second World War.