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 quickly flooding social media and showing a man seem to run onto the stage and sort out 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 contains harsh language including 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 exterior the venue by police and then loaded into an ambulance with visible accidents.

Witnesses mentioned — and videos appeared to show — that the person was set upon by a number of people onstage instantly after he attacked Chappelle. 

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

Whereas your complete debacle was captured in a number of movies shot by members of the audience, mobile phone use was formally banned throughout the performance.  

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

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

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

Comic Chris Rock was at the present, 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 pointy rebuke late final yr from the transgender group 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, persevering with to air the particular regardless of hundreds of its personal employees staging a walk-out over what they deemed Chappelle's transphobic jokes.

The comic later said he'd be glad to satisfy with any member of the transgender neighborhood, but that he would not be swayed by "anybody's demands" to censor his routine.

"To the transgender neighborhood, I'm more than willing to present you an audience, but you'll not summon me. I'm not bending to anyone's calls for," he instructed 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 comic Hannah Gadsby, who labelled Chapelle's Netflix special "hate speech."

"In case you wanna meet with me, I would be more than keen to, but I've circumstances: Initially, you cannot come if in case you have not watched my special from starting to end. It's essential to come to a spot of my selecting and a time of my selecting. And thirdly, you should admit that Hannah Gadsby shouldn't be humorous."  

The Related Press contributed reporting.

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