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

Comic Dave Chappelle was attacked onstage Tuesday night as he carried out at Los Angeles' Hollywood Bowl enviornment, with movies from viewers members' cellphones shortly flooding social media and displaying a person seem to run onto the stage and tackle 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.

Videos posted to Twitter appeared to show the person who charged Chappelle being detained outside the venue by police and then loaded into an ambulance with visible injuries.

Witnesses mentioned — and videos appeared to show — that the man was set upon by multiple folks onstage immediately after he attacked Chappelle. 

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

Whereas the whole debacle was captured in a number of videos shot by members of the audience, cell phone use was formally banned in the course of the performance.  

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

Simply got here out of the Hollywood Bowl where a man charged and tackled Dave Chapelle on stage and acquired his ass kicked by at the very least 10 people.

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

Comedian Chris Rock was on 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 sharp rebuke late last year from the transgender community for jokes at their expense featured in his latest Netflix special, "The Closer," which premiered in October.

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

The comic later mentioned he'd be joyful to meet with any member of the transgender community, however that he wouldn't be swayed by "anyone's calls for" to censor his routine.

"To the transgender group, I'm greater than keen to give you an viewers, but you will not summon me. I am not bending to anybody's calls for," he informed an viewers in a clip posted to his Instagram. 

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

"Should you wanna meet with me, I would be greater than prepared to, but I have conditions: First of all, you can't come if you have not watched my special from starting to finish. You will need to come to a place of my choosing and a time of my choosing. And thirdly, you could admit that Hannah Gadsby is just not funny."  

The Associated Press contributed reporting.

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