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

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

Witnesses said — and movies appeared to point out — that the person was set upon by a number of folks onstage instantly 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, cellular phone use was formally banned in the course of the performance.  

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

Simply came out of the Hollywood Bowl the place a person charged and tackled Dave Chapelle on stage and received his ass kicked by at least 10 folks.

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

Comedian Chris Rock was at the show, and jokingly requested 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 12 months 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, persevering with to air the particular regardless of tons of of its own workers staging a walk-out over what they deemed Chappelle's transphobic jokes.

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

"To the transgender neighborhood, I'm greater than willing to provide you an audience, but you will not summon me. I'm not bending to anybody's demands," he instructed 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 comedian Hannah Gadsby, who labelled Chapelle's Netflix particular "hate speech."

"If you happen to wanna meet with me, I'd be greater than willing to, however I've situations: Initially, you can not come if you have not watched my particular from beginning to finish. You could come to a place of my selecting and a time of my choosing. And thirdly, you need to admit that Hannah Gadsby is not humorous."  

The Associated Press contributed reporting.

Tucker Reals is the CBSNews.com foreign editor, based mostly on the CBS Information London bureau.