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

Comedian Dave Chappelle was attacked onstage Tuesday evening as he carried out at Los Angeles' Hollywood Bowl area, with movies from audience members' cellphones shortly flooding social media and showing a person appear to run onto the stage and deal with the comedian.

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

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

Witnesses said — and movies appeared to indicate — that the person was set upon by a number of individuals onstage instantly after he attacked Chappelle. 

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

Whereas the whole debacle was captured in multiple videos shot by members of the viewers, cell phone use was formally banned through the efficiency.  

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

Just got here out of the Hollywood Bowl the place a man charged and tackled Dave Chapelle on stage and received his ass kicked by at the very least 10 folks.

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

Comedian Chris Rock was on the present, 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 sharp rebuke late final year from the transgender community for jokes at their expense featured in his newest Netflix particular, "The Nearer," which premiered in October.

Netflix stood by the Washington D.C. native, continuing to air the special regardless of a whole lot of its own workers staging a walk-out over what they deemed Chappelle's transphobic jokes.

The comic later mentioned he'd be completely satisfied to meet with any member of the transgender community, but that he wouldn't be swayed by "anyone's calls for" to censor his routine.

"To the transgender group, I'm more than prepared to provide you an audience, however you will not summon me. I'm not bending to anybody's calls for," he instructed an audience in a clip posted to his Instagram. 

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

"When you wanna meet with me, I'd be more than willing to, however I've circumstances: To begin with, you cannot come when you've got not watched my special from beginning to finish. You have to come to a place of my choosing and a time of my selecting. And thirdly, you could admit that Hannah Gadsby just isn't humorous."  

The Associated Press contributed reporting.

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