What do you do when a fellow performer insults your political hero? Jump on stage and steal their shoe, of course.

Veteran actor James Woods has raised eyebrows - and earned himself a few chuckles - after climbing onto the stage at the 2017 Writers Guild Awards in Beverly Hills, California, and taking off the host's shoe because he poked fun at President Donald Trump.

Comedian Patton Oswalt, who was hosting the awards night, began his opening speech by joking that this was the last Writers Guild Awards because the apocalypse was on the horizon.

He joked each award would come with antibiotics, a month's supply of firewood and nine shotgun shells. The standup comedian also took aim at Trump's erratic tweets.