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

Comic Dave Chappelle was attacked onstage Tuesday night as he performed at Los Angeles' Hollywood Bowl area, with videos from viewers members' cellphones quickly flooding social media and exhibiting a man 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 comprises 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 show the one that charged Chappelle being detained outdoors the venue by police after which loaded into an ambulance with seen accidents.

Witnesses said — and movies appeared to point out — that the man 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

Whereas the whole debacle was captured in a number of movies shot by members of the viewers, cell phone use was formally banned throughout the performance.  

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

Just got here out of the Hollywood Bowl where a person charged and tackled Dave Chapelle on stage and received his ass kicked by at the least 10 folks.

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

Comedian Chris Rock was at the show, and jokingly asked 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 last yr from the transgender neighborhood 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 a whole bunch of its personal employees staging a walk-out over what they deemed Chappelle's transphobic jokes.

The comic later stated he'd be comfortable to meet with any member of the transgender group, but that he would not be swayed by "anyone's calls for" to censor his routine.

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

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

"When you wanna meet with me, I might be greater than keen to, but I have conditions: To begin with, you can't come you probably have not watched my special from starting to finish. You could come to a spot of my choosing and a time of my choosing. And thirdly, you need to admit that Hannah Gadsby just isn't funny."  

The Associated Press contributed reporting.

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