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 viewers members' cellphones shortly flooding social media and showing a man seem to run onto the stage and sort out the comic.

Chappelle, whose unapologetic humor has made him a lightning rod for criticism, appeared unscathed by the sudden interruption and later joked (Observe: Linked video accommodates harsh language together with profanity) with fellow comedian and actor Jamie Foxx onstage that he'd taken revenge on his attacker.

Movies posted to Twitter appeared to point out the person who charged Chappelle being detained outside the venue by police and then loaded into an ambulance with seen injuries.

Witnesses stated — and movies appeared to show — that the person was set upon by multiple folks onstage instantly after he attacked Chappelle. 

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

While the complete debacle was captured in a number of videos shot by members of the viewers, mobile phone use was officially banned through the performance.  

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

Simply got here out of the Hollywood Bowl where a person charged and tackled Dave Chapelle on stage and received his ass kicked by at the least 10 individuals.

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

Comedian 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 on the Academy Awards in March.

Chappelle drew a sharp rebuke late last year 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 particular despite a whole bunch of its own staff staging a walk-out over what they deemed Chappelle's transphobic jokes.

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

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

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

"Should you wanna meet with me, I might be greater than willing to, but I have conditions: Initially, you can not come when you've got not watched my particular from beginning to end. It's essential to come to a place of my selecting and a time of my choosing. And thirdly, you could admit that Hannah Gadsby just isn't funny."  

The Associated Press contributed reporting.

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