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 videos from audience members' cellphones shortly flooding social media and showing a person appear 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 (Observe: Linked video accommodates 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 point out the one that charged Chappelle being detained outside the venue by police after which loaded into an ambulance with visible accidents.

Witnesses said — and videos appeared to point out — that the person was set upon by multiple people onstage instantly after he attacked Chappelle. 

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

Whereas your complete debacle was captured in a number of videos shot by members of the viewers, mobile phone use was formally banned in the course of the efficiency.  

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

Simply got here out of the Hollywood Bowl where a man charged and tackled Dave Chapelle on stage and received 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 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 sharp rebuke late final year from the transgender group for jokes at their expense featured in his newest Netflix particular, "The Nearer," which premiered in October.

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

The comic later mentioned he'd be glad to satisfy with any member of the transgender neighborhood, however that he would not be swayed by "anybody's calls for" to censor his routine.

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

The 48-year-old comedian 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 might be greater than keen to, however I've circumstances: First of all, you cannot come if in case you have not watched my special from starting to finish. You should come to a place of my choosing and a time of my selecting. And thirdly, you should admit that Hannah Gadsby shouldn't be funny."  

The Associated Press contributed reporting.

Tucker Reals is the CBSNews.com overseas editor, based mostly at the CBS Information London bureau.