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 arena, with movies from audience members' cellphones shortly flooding social media and displaying a person appear to run onto the stage and sort out the comedian.

Chappelle, whose unapologetic humor has made him a lightning rod for criticism, appeared unscathed by the sudden interruption and later joked (Notice: Linked video incorporates harsh language together with profanity) with fellow comic and actor Jamie Foxx onstage that he'd taken revenge on his attacker.

Videos 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 stated — and movies appeared to show — that the person was set upon by a number of folks onstage instantly after he attacked Chappelle. 

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

Whereas the whole debacle was captured in a number of videos shot by members of the viewers, mobile phone use was formally banned throughout the performance.  

The motivation for the preliminary assault remained unclear, and there was no quick response from the Los Angeles Police Division to CBS Information' request for details about the incident.

Just got here out of the Hollywood Bowl the place a man charged and tackled Dave Chapelle on stage and got his ass kicked by a minimum of 10 people.

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

Comedian Chris Rock was on the present, 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 final 12 months 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, persevering with to air the special regardless of a whole bunch of its personal staff staging a walk-out over what they deemed Chappelle's transphobic jokes.

The comic later said he'd be completely happy to meet with any member of the transgender group, but that he wouldn't be swayed by "anyone's calls for" to censor his routine.

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

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

"When you wanna meet with me, I'd be more than prepared to, but I have conditions: First of all, you cannot come when you have not watched my special from beginning to finish. You have to come to a spot of my selecting and a time of my selecting. And thirdly, you should admit that Hannah Gadsby is just not funny."  

The Related Press contributed reporting.

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