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

Comic Dave Chappelle was attacked onstage Tuesday night as he carried out at Los Angeles' Hollywood Bowl enviornment, with movies from viewers members' cellphones shortly flooding social media and showing a man 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 (Be aware: Linked video contains harsh language together with 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 one who charged Chappelle being detained outside the venue by police after which loaded into an ambulance with visible accidents.

Witnesses said — and movies appeared to show — that the person was set upon by multiple people onstage immediately after he attacked Chappelle. 

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

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

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

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

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

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

Chappelle drew a pointy rebuke late final year 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 particular regardless of a whole bunch of its personal employees staging a walk-out over what they deemed Chappelle's transphobic jokes.

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

"To the transgender neighborhood, I am more than willing to offer you an viewers, but you'll not summon me. I'm not bending to anybody's demands," he told an viewers in a clip posted to his Instagram. 

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

"In case you wanna meet with me, I'd be more than willing to, however I have situations: To begin with, you cannot come when you have not watched my special from beginning to finish. You will need to come to a place of my choosing and a time of my choosing. And thirdly, you must admit that Hannah Gadsby just isn't funny."  

The Related Press contributed reporting.

Tucker Reals is the CBSNews.com overseas editor, based mostly on the CBS News London bureau.