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

Comic Dave Chappelle was attacked onstage Tuesday evening as he carried out at Los Angeles' Hollywood Bowl area, with movies from viewers members' cellphones shortly flooding social media and showing a man seem to run onto the stage and deal with the comic.

Chappelle, whose unapologetic humor has made him a lightning rod for criticism, appeared unscathed by the sudden interruption and later joked (Word: 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 indicate the one that charged Chappelle being detained outside the venue by police after which loaded into an ambulance with seen injuries.

Witnesses mentioned — and videos appeared to point out — that the person was set upon by a number of folks onstage immediately after he attacked Chappelle. 

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

While your entire debacle was captured in multiple movies shot by members of the audience, cellphone use was officially banned during the efficiency.  

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

Simply came out of the Hollywood Bowl where a man charged and tackled Dave Chapelle on stage and acquired his ass kicked by at the least 10 people.

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

Comic Chris Rock was at the present, 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 last 12 months 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 special regardless of a whole lot of its personal employees staging a walk-out over what they deemed Chappelle's transphobic jokes.

The comic later stated he'd be completely satisfied to fulfill with any member of the transgender community, however that he would not be swayed by "anybody's calls for" to censor his routine.

"To the transgender group, I am more than willing to give you an audience, but you will not summon me. I am not bending to anyone's demands," he informed an viewers 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 particular "hate speech."

"When you wanna meet with me, I'd be greater than willing to, but I've situations: To start with, you cannot come you probably have not watched my particular from starting to end. You will need to come to a place of my selecting and a time of my choosing. And thirdly, you will need to admit that Hannah Gadsby shouldn't be humorous."  

The Associated Press contributed reporting.

Tucker Reals is the CBSNews.com international editor, primarily based on the CBS Information London bureau.