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

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

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

Videos posted to Twitter appeared to show the one that charged Chappelle being detained outdoors the venue by police after which loaded into an ambulance with visible injuries.

Witnesses stated — and videos appeared to show — that the person was set upon by a number of folks onstage instantly after he attacked Chappelle. 

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

Whereas your entire debacle was captured in multiple movies shot by members of the viewers, cell phone use was officially banned throughout the performance.  

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

Simply came out of the Hollywood Bowl where a man charged and tackled Dave Chapelle on stage and bought his ass kicked by a minimum of 10 people.

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

Comedian Chris Rock was at the present, and jokingly requested 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 last 12 months from the transgender neighborhood 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, persevering with to air the special despite hundreds of its own staff staging a walk-out over what they deemed Chappelle's transphobic jokes.

The comedian later said he'd be pleased to meet with any member of the transgender community, however that he would not be swayed by "anyone's calls for" to censor his routine.

"To the transgender neighborhood, I am greater than keen to give you an viewers, but you will not summon me. I'm not bending to anybody's calls for," he told an viewers in a clip posted to his Instagram. 

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

"If you happen to wanna meet with me, I might be more than willing to, but I have circumstances: To begin with, you can not come in case you have not watched my particular from starting to end. You should come to a spot of my selecting and a time of my selecting. And thirdly, you must admit that Hannah Gadsby is not humorous."  

The Related Press contributed reporting.

Tucker Reals is the CBSNews.com international editor, primarily based at the CBS Information London bureau.