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 quickly flooding social media and showing a person appear to run onto the stage and sort out the comic.

Chappelle, whose unapologetic humor has made him a lightning rod for criticism, appeared unscathed by the sudden interruption and later joked (Notice: Linked video contains harsh language including 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 person who charged Chappelle being detained outside the venue by police and then loaded into an ambulance with visible accidents.

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

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

Whereas your entire debacle was captured in multiple movies shot by members of the audience, cell phone use was officially banned during the performance.  

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

Simply got here out of the Hollywood Bowl the place a man charged and tackled Dave Chapelle on stage and received his ass kicked by at the very 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 present, and jokingly requested 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 12 months from the transgender community 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, persevering with to air the special despite lots of of its own staff staging a walk-out over what they deemed Chappelle's transphobic jokes.

The comic later said he'd be completely satisfied to fulfill with any member of the transgender neighborhood, but that he would not be swayed by "anybody's demands" to censor his routine.

"To the transgender community, I'm more than keen to provide you an viewers, however you'll not summon me. I am not bending to anybody's calls for," he instructed an viewers in a clip posted to his Instagram. 

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

"For those who wanna meet with me, I might be greater than prepared to, but I've conditions: To start with, 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 selecting. And thirdly, you should admit that Hannah Gadsby just isn't humorous."  

The Associated Press contributed reporting.

Tucker Reals is the CBSNews.com international editor, based mostly at the CBS News London bureau.