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

Comic Dave Chappelle was attacked onstage Tuesday night time as he performed at Los Angeles' Hollywood Bowl area, with videos from viewers members' cellphones quickly flooding social media and exhibiting a person seem to run onto the stage and deal with 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 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 show the person who charged Chappelle being detained outside the venue by police after which loaded into an ambulance with seen injuries.

Witnesses stated — and videos appeared to indicate — that the man was set upon by multiple individuals onstage instantly after he attacked Chappelle. 

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

While all the debacle was captured in a number of movies shot by members of the audience, cellular phone use was formally banned throughout the performance.  

The motivation for the preliminary attack remained unclear, and there was no immediate response from the Los Angeles Police Division 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 no less than 10 people.

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

Comic Chris Rock was on the present, 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 community 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, continuing to air the special despite tons of of its own workers staging a walk-out over what they deemed Chappelle's transphobic jokes.

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

"To the transgender neighborhood, I'm more than willing to provide you an viewers, but you will not summon me. I'm not bending to anyone's calls for," he advised an viewers in a clip posted to his Instagram. 

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

"In case you wanna meet with me, I might be more than prepared to, however I've conditions: To start with, you cannot come in case you have not watched my special from beginning to end. You need to come to a place of my choosing and a time of my choosing. And thirdly, you have to admit that Hannah Gadsby just isn't humorous."  

The Related Press contributed reporting.

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