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

Comedian Dave Chappelle was attacked onstage Tuesday night as he carried out at Los Angeles' Hollywood Bowl enviornment, with videos from audience members' cellphones shortly flooding social media and displaying a man 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 (Word: Linked video incorporates harsh language including profanity) with fellow comic and actor Jamie Foxx onstage that he'd taken revenge on his attacker.

Videos posted to Twitter appeared to indicate the one that charged Chappelle being detained outside the venue by police and then loaded into an ambulance with seen accidents.

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

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

Whereas the whole debacle was captured in multiple movies shot by members of the viewers, cellphone use was formally banned during the performance.  

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

Just got here out of the Hollywood Bowl the place a person charged and tackled Dave Chapelle on stage and got his ass kicked by a minimum of 10 people.

LAPD and LAFD are now 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 on the Academy Awards in March.

Chappelle drew a pointy rebuke late final yr from the transgender group for jokes at their expense featured in his newest Netflix particular, "The Closer," which premiered in October.

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

The comic later stated he'd be completely happy to satisfy 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 group, I'm greater than prepared to offer you an audience, but you'll not summon me. I am not bending to anybody's demands," he informed an audience in a clip posted to his Instagram. 

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

"If you wanna meet with me, I'd be more than prepared to, but I have situations: First of all, you can't come you probably have not watched my particular from starting to finish. You have to come to a spot of my selecting and a time of my choosing. And thirdly, you must admit that Hannah Gadsby is not funny."  

The Related Press contributed reporting.

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