Daniel Sloss once snorted cocaine off Adolf Hitler’s toilet.

The Scottish comedian made the revelation on a US podcast, boasting: 'I've done coke in some fucking great places. I've done coke off of Hitler's toilet.’

However, there are some caveats to the tale, told to  American comedians Sam Morril and Mark Normand on We Might Be Drunk.

As Sloss acknowledged, Hitler never actually used the toilet in question. It was simply attached to the prison cell in the Tower of London where he was supposedly set to be held if he'd been captured alive before the end of the war, and needed to await a trial.

Moreover, although Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess was briefly held at the Tower during the conflict, the suggestion that 'Hitler's toilet' in the upper floor of the landmark's Bell Tower was purpose-built for the German leader is generally regarded as a myth.

Still, Sloss recalled how he 'got access to what was meant to be his cell. And I was like: "I have to do cocaine off this fucking toilet!"’

He’s not the only comedian to have desecrated the Furrier’s memory, as Groucho Marx famously danced the Charleston on the rubble of Hitler's bunker when he visited Berlin in 1964.

Elsewhere in the interview, the stand-up disclosed that his forthcoming tour, Bitter, will focus on what happened after he spoke out against Russell Brand in the 2023 Channel 4 Dispatches documentary that accused Brand of sexual assaults against women.

He also alleged that comedians taking part in Comedy Central's Roast Battle in 2018, on which both he and Brand appeared, were specifically told not to reference the rumours about Brand's conduct in front of him.

However, as subsequently emerged, Katherine Ryan directly called Brand a 'predator' on camera, though that did not make the edit. Brand has always denied the allegations against him and pleaded not guilty to a number of charges against him at a court hearing in London earlier this year. His trial is scheduled to begin on June  3 next year. 

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- by Jay Richardson