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

Comic Dave Chappelle was attacked onstage Tuesday night as he performed at Los Angeles' Hollywood Bowl area, with movies from audience members' cellphones shortly 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 (Notice: Linked video accommodates 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 indicate the one that charged Chappelle being detained outdoors the venue by police after which loaded into an ambulance with seen 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 overwhelmed down after attacking Dave Chappelle at Hollywood Bowl pic.twitter.com/Ft0FIUyjWv

While all the debacle was captured in a number of movies shot by members of the viewers, cellphone use was formally banned throughout the performance.  

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

Simply got here out of the Hollywood Bowl the place a man charged and tackled Dave Chapelle on stage and received his ass kicked by no less than 10 individuals.

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

Comedian Chris Rock was on 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 yr 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, continuing to air the special regardless of lots of of its own workers staging a walk-out over what they deemed Chappelle's transphobic jokes.

The comedian later mentioned he'd be glad to meet with any member of the transgender neighborhood, but that he wouldn't be swayed by "anybody's demands" to censor his routine.

"To the transgender group, I'm greater than keen to present you an viewers, but you'll not summon me. I'm not bending to anybody's demands," he informed an audience in a clip posted to his Instagram. 

The 48-year-old comedian listed three situations 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 might be greater than keen to, but I have situations: First of all, you can not come in case you have not watched my particular from starting to end. You will need to come to a spot of my choosing and a time of my selecting. And thirdly, you have to admit that Hannah Gadsby is not funny."  

The Related Press contributed reporting.

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