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

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

Chappelle, whose unapologetic humor has made him a lightning rod for criticism, appeared unscathed by the sudden interruption and later joked (Word: 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 indicate the one that charged Chappelle being detained outside the venue by police after which loaded into an ambulance with seen accidents.

Witnesses said — and videos appeared to point out — that the man was set upon by multiple individuals onstage immediately after he attacked Chappelle. 

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

While the entire debacle was captured in a number of videos shot by members of the audience, cellular 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 Division to CBS Information' request for information about the incident.

Just got here out of the Hollywood Bowl where a man charged and tackled Dave Chapelle on stage and received his ass kicked by a minimum of 10 individuals.

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

Comic 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 sharp rebuke late final year from the transgender group for jokes at their expense featured in his newest Netflix special, "The Nearer," which premiered in October.

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

The comic later mentioned he'd be happy to fulfill with any member of the transgender neighborhood, but that he wouldn't be swayed by "anybody's calls for" to censor his routine.

"To the transgender community, I am more than keen to give you an viewers, but you will 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 conditions for any potential assembly, 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 greater than keen to, but I have conditions: First of all, you can't come when you've got not watched my particular from beginning to end. You should come to a place of my choosing and a time of my selecting. And thirdly, you will need to admit that Hannah Gadsby is not funny."  

The Related Press contributed reporting.

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