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 enviornment, with videos from audience members' cellphones rapidly flooding social media and displaying a person appear 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 (Be aware: Linked video incorporates harsh language including profanity) with fellow comedian 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 exterior the venue by police and then loaded into an ambulance with visible injuries.

Witnesses mentioned — and videos appeared to point out — that the person was set upon by multiple people onstage instantly after he attacked Chappelle. 

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

Whereas your complete debacle was captured in multiple videos shot by members of the audience, cellular phone use was formally banned during the performance.  

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

Simply got here out of the Hollywood Bowl where a man charged and tackled Dave Chapelle on stage and received his ass kicked by not less than 10 individuals.

LAPD and LAFD are actually 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 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 Closer," which premiered in October.

Netflix stood by the Washington D.C. native, persevering with to air the particular regardless of lots of of its own staff staging a walk-out over what they deemed Chappelle's transphobic jokes.

The comic later said he'd be pleased to fulfill with any member of the transgender group, but that he wouldn't be swayed by "anyone's calls for" to censor his routine.

"To the transgender group, I am more than keen to present you an audience, but you'll not summon me. I am 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 meeting, and responded to fellow comedian Hannah Gadsby, who labelled Chapelle's Netflix particular "hate speech."

"For those who wanna meet with me, I would be more than keen to, but I've situations: To start with, you can not come if you have not watched my special from starting to end. You should come to a spot of my choosing and a time of my selecting. And thirdly, it's essential to admit that Hannah Gadsby shouldn't be funny."  

The Related Press contributed reporting.

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