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

Comic Dave Chappelle was attacked onstage Tuesday night time as he carried out at Los Angeles' Hollywood Bowl enviornment, with movies from viewers members' cellphones rapidly flooding social media and exhibiting a person seem 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 (Notice: Linked video accommodates 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 person who charged Chappelle being detained outside the venue by police and then loaded into an ambulance with seen injuries.

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

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

While all the debacle was captured in a number of videos shot by members of the audience, mobile phone use was officially banned during the performance.  

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

Just got here out of the Hollywood Bowl the place a person charged and tackled Dave Chapelle on stage and acquired 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 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 yr from the transgender community for jokes at their expense featured in his newest Netflix particular, "The Closer," which premiered in October.

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

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

"To the transgender group, I'm more than keen to give you an viewers, however you'll not summon me. I am not bending to anybody's calls for," he advised an audience in a clip posted to his Instagram. 

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

"If you wanna meet with me, I might be more than willing to, but I've situations: To begin with, you can not come if in case you have not watched my special from starting to end. It's essential to come to a place of my selecting and a time of my choosing. And thirdly, you will need to admit that Hannah Gadsby is just not humorous."  

The Associated Press contributed reporting.

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