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

Comedian Dave Chappelle was attacked onstage Tuesday night time as he performed at Los Angeles' Hollywood Bowl enviornment, with videos from viewers members' cellphones shortly flooding social media and displaying 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 (Be aware: Linked video contains harsh language together with 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 one who charged Chappelle being detained outside the venue by police after which loaded into an ambulance with seen accidents.

Witnesses said — and videos appeared to show — that the man was set upon by a number of people onstage immediately after he attacked Chappelle. 

The fool getting overwhelmed 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 viewers, mobile phone use was officially banned during the performance.  

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

Just came out of the Hollywood Bowl the place a man charged and tackled Dave Chapelle on stage and received his ass kicked by no less than 10 individuals.

LAPD and LAFD are actually 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 year from the transgender group for jokes at their expense featured in his latest Netflix particular, "The Nearer," which premiered in October.

Netflix stood by the Washington D.C. native, persevering with to air the particular despite lots of of its own employees staging a walk-out over what they deemed Chappelle's transphobic jokes.

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

"To the transgender community, I'm more than willing to present you an audience, however you will not summon me. I'm not bending to anyone's demands," he instructed an audience in a clip posted to his Instagram. 

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

"In case you wanna meet with me, I'd be greater than keen to, however I've circumstances: First of all, you cannot come when you have not watched my special from starting to finish. You will need to come to a place of my selecting and a time of my choosing. And thirdly, you could admit that Hannah Gadsby shouldn't be funny."  

The Associated Press contributed reporting.

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