Dave Chappelle attacked onstage at L.A.’s Hollywood Bowl

Comedian Dave Chappelle was attacked onstage Tuesday night time as he carried out at Los Angeles' Hollywood Bowl arena, with videos from audience members' cellphones rapidly flooding social media and exhibiting a person seem to run onto the stage and sort out the comedian.

Chappelle, whose unapologetic humor has made him a lightning rod for criticism, appeared unscathed by the sudden interruption and later joked (Note: Linked video comprises harsh language including profanity) with fellow comic and actor Jamie Foxx onstage that he'd taken revenge on his attacker.

Movies posted to Twitter appeared to show the person who charged Chappelle being detained outside the venue by police and then loaded into an ambulance with visible injuries.

Witnesses stated — and videos appeared to indicate — that the person was set upon by a number of people onstage immediately after he attacked Chappelle. 

The idiot getting overwhelmed down after attacking Dave Chappelle at Hollywood Bowl pic.twitter.com/Ft0FIUyjWv

While the complete debacle was captured in a number of movies shot by members of the audience, cellphone use was officially banned during the efficiency.  

The motivation for the initial assault remained unclear, and there was no speedy response from the Los Angeles Police Department to CBS News' request for information about the incident.

Simply got here out of the Hollywood Bowl where a person charged and tackled Dave Chapelle on stage and got his ass kicked by at the very least 10 folks.

LAPD and LAFD are actually loading him into an ambulance pic.twitter.com/7SXPe9e8az

Comedian Chris Rock was on the show, and jokingly asked if the attacker was Will Smith — who made headlines by bounding up on stage and slapping Rock at the Academy Awards in March.

Chappelle drew a pointy rebuke late final year from the transgender group for jokes at their expense featured in his latest Netflix special, "The Nearer," which premiered in October.

Netflix stood by the Washington D.C. native, continuing to air the particular regardless of tons of of its personal employees staging a walk-out over what they deemed Chappelle's transphobic jokes.

The comic later stated he'd be glad to fulfill with any member of the transgender group, but that he wouldn't be swayed by "anybody's demands" to censor his routine.

"To the transgender community, I'm more than willing to give you an viewers, but you will not summon me. I'm not bending to anyone's calls for," he advised an audience in a clip posted to his Instagram. 

The 48-year-old comic listed three situations for any potential meeting, and responded to fellow comic Hannah Gadsby, who labelled Chapelle's Netflix special "hate speech."

"Should you wanna meet with me, I would be more than willing to, however I've circumstances: To begin with, you can not come if in case you have not watched my special from beginning to finish. You have to come to a spot of my selecting and a time of my choosing. And thirdly, you will need to admit that Hannah Gadsby isn't humorous."  

The Associated Press contributed reporting.

Tucker Reals is the CBSNews.com foreign editor, based at the CBS News London bureau.