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Chris Rock warned on Sunday night that arresting Donald Trump would make him 'more popular' and slammed the crowd of Washington D.C. insiders watching him, asking them 'are you stupid' for making such a move.

The comedian also mockingly defended the former president, saying it was 'romantic' he paid off porn star Stormy Daniels so Melania Trump wouldn't find out he cheated on her. 

And he got in a hit at Joe Biden, saying the 80-year-old came back from the dead to be president. 

Rock, speaking at the Mark Twain Prize at the Kennedy Center, where Adam Sandler was being honored for the prize in American humor, focused his fire on Trump instead of his friend being honored.

'Are you guys really going to arrest Trump?,' he asked the crowd, which included lawmakers like Nancy Pelosi and several officials who serve in the Biden administration.

'Do you know this is only going to make him more popular. It's like arresting Tupac. He's just gonna sell more records. Are you stupid?,' Rock continued as the crowd roared with laughter.

Rock noted Trump had 'f****** a porn star and paid off someone so his wife couldn't find out. That's romantic.'

'We've all been cheated on. Don't you wish that the person that cheated on you paid off somebody so you wouldn't find out?' he added.

Rock was referring to the fact Trump is set to face criminal charges for $130,000 in payments his former lawyer, Michael Cohen, sent to porn star Stormy Daniels toward the end of his 2016 campaign. Prosecutors say the payment violated campaign finance laws, and was made to silence Daniels about an affair she had with the mogul. 

Trump denied he ever had an affair. And, this weekend, he tweeted he was prepared to be arrested on Tuesday as he urged his supporters to 'protest, protest, protest.'

President Joe Biden didn't attend the Mark Twain Prize, which was awarded at the Kennedy Center, but it didn't stop Rock from targeting the commander-in-chief, making fun of the 80 year old's age. Biden is the oldest president ever elected.

'Trump was so bad as a president, he was so bad that Joe Biden had to burst off a monument. Biden was dead for 16 years,' he said, garnering more laughter from the packed auditorium.

And Rock gave a shoutout to Paul Pelosi, who was seated in the audience next to Nancy Pelosi. 

'Paul Pelosi only got it. He knows how I felt,' he said.

Rock was one of a slew of famous names who gathered at the Kennedy Center on Sunday night to honor Adam Sandler with the Mark Twain Prize for humor.

Many of them bemoaned the 'woke' state that has made comedy a 'taboo subject.'

Sandler, 56, acknowledged how tough it is to make people laugh.

'Comedians are trying to make you laugh, and that's that's what the goal is,' he told DailyMail.com on the red carpet, adding: 'Yeah, it's it's more hypersensitive than it's ever been but we're gonna be alright.'

And Drew Barrymore, who starred with Sandler in 'The Wedding Singer' and '50 First Dates,' told DailyMail.com: 'Comedy in general has become a taboo subject and that in itself scares me. But I just want to appreciate people who are brave enough to make us laugh.'

'Everything, you know, in a moment can be something that creates a sentiment of vitriol or distaste or dislike. I don't even think gotcha has a chance to be a gotcha. It's like too fast instant. People are turning on each other,' she added.

Sandler, best known for his time on 'Saturday Night Live' and a slew of comedy films, was honored by a host of his famous friends on Sunday night, including Jennifer Aniston, Judd Apatow, Steve Buscemi, Conan O’Brien, Chris Rock, and David

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