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

Comedian Dave Chappelle was attacked onstage Tuesday night as he carried out at Los Angeles' Hollywood Bowl area, with movies from viewers 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 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 show the person who charged Chappelle being detained outdoors the venue by police and then loaded into an ambulance with visible injuries.

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

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

While the whole debacle was captured in multiple movies shot by members of the audience, mobile phone use was officially banned in the course of the efficiency.  

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

Simply came out of the Hollywood Bowl the place a man charged and tackled Dave Chapelle on stage and acquired his ass kicked by a minimum of 10 individuals.

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

Comic 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 at the Academy Awards in March.

Chappelle drew a pointy rebuke late last 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 particular regardless of hundreds 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 fulfill with any member of the transgender neighborhood, but that he wouldn't be swayed by "anyone's demands" to censor his routine.

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

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

"If you wanna meet with me, I would be more than prepared to, but I've situations: First of all, you can not come when you've got not watched my particular from starting to end. You need 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 funny."  

The Related Press contributed reporting.

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