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

Comedian Dave Chappelle was attacked onstage Tuesday night as he performed at Los Angeles' Hollywood Bowl enviornment, with movies from viewers members' cellphones rapidly flooding social media and exhibiting a person appear to run onto the stage and tackle the comedian.

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

Videos posted to Twitter appeared to point out the one who charged Chappelle being detained exterior the venue by police after which loaded into an ambulance with visible injuries.

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

The fool 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 viewers, cellular phone use was formally banned throughout 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 information about the incident.

Just came out of the Hollywood Bowl the place a person charged and tackled Dave Chapelle on stage and received his ass kicked by at the least 10 people.

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 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 12 months from the transgender neighborhood 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, persevering with to air the particular despite hundreds of its own employees staging a walk-out over what they deemed Chappelle's transphobic jokes.

The comedian later mentioned he'd be blissful to meet with any member of the transgender neighborhood, but that he wouldn't be swayed by "anybody's calls for" to censor his routine.

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

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

"Should you wanna meet with me, I'd be more than willing to, however I've situations: To start with, you cannot come if in case you have not watched my particular from starting to finish. You should come to a place of my selecting and a time of my selecting. And thirdly, it's essential to admit that Hannah Gadsby is not humorous."  

The Related Press contributed reporting.

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