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 videos from audience members' cellphones rapidly flooding social media and exhibiting a person seem 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 (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 point out the one that charged Chappelle being detained exterior the venue by police and then loaded into an ambulance with seen accidents.

Witnesses said — and videos appeared to indicate — that the person was set upon by a number of individuals onstage instantly after he attacked Chappelle. 

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

While your complete debacle was captured in a number of videos shot by members of the audience, cell phone use was formally banned through the performance.  

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

Simply came out of the Hollywood Bowl the place a person charged and tackled Dave Chapelle on stage and obtained his ass kicked by not less than 10 folks.

LAPD and LAFD are actually 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 yr from the transgender group for jokes at their expense featured in his newest Netflix particular, "The Nearer," which premiered in October.

Netflix stood by the Washington D.C. native, continuing to air the special despite lots of 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 meet with any member of the transgender community, however that he would not be swayed by "anybody's calls for" to censor his routine.

"To the transgender neighborhood, I am greater than willing to give you an viewers, but you'll not summon me. I am not bending to anyone's demands," he advised an viewers in a clip posted to his Instagram. 

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

"In case you wanna meet with me, I might be greater than prepared to, however I have circumstances: Initially, you cannot come you probably have not watched my special from starting to end. You will need to come to a spot of my selecting and a time of my selecting. And thirdly, you should admit that Hannah Gadsby isn't humorous."  

The Associated Press contributed reporting.

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