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 enviornment, with movies from audience members' cellphones rapidly flooding social media and displaying a man seem to run onto the stage and tackle the comic.

Chappelle, whose unapologetic humor has made him a lightning rod for criticism, appeared unscathed by the sudden interruption and later joked (Note: Linked video incorporates 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 point out the one who charged Chappelle being detained outside the venue by police and then loaded into an ambulance with seen accidents.

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

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

While your complete debacle was captured in multiple movies shot by members of the audience, cell phone use was formally banned through the performance.  

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

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

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

Comedian 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 at the Academy Awards in March.

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

Netflix stood by the Washington D.C. native, continuing 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 comedian later stated he'd be comfortable to meet with any member of the transgender group, but that he wouldn't be swayed by "anybody's calls for" to censor his routine.

"To the transgender neighborhood, I'm more than prepared to present you an audience, but you will not summon me. I'm not bending to anybody's calls for," he advised an audience in a clip posted to his Instagram. 

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

"In the event you wanna meet with me, I might be more than prepared to, but I've situations: To start with, you can't come if in case you have not watched my particular from starting to finish. You should come to a spot of my selecting and a time of my choosing. And thirdly, you have to admit that Hannah Gadsby is not humorous."  

The Related Press contributed reporting.

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