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

Comic Dave Chappelle was attacked onstage Tuesday evening as he performed at Los Angeles' Hollywood Bowl arena, with movies from audience members' cellphones quickly flooding social media and showing a person seem to run onto the stage and tackle 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 including profanity) with fellow comic and actor Jamie Foxx onstage that he'd taken revenge on his attacker.

Videos posted to Twitter appeared to point out the one that charged Chappelle being detained outdoors the venue by police after which loaded into an ambulance with visible injuries.

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

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

While your complete debacle was captured in multiple videos shot by members of the viewers, cellphone use was formally banned through the efficiency.  

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

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

LAPD and LAFD are now 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 year 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 a whole bunch of its personal workers staging a walk-out over what they deemed Chappelle's transphobic jokes.

The comic later said he'd be blissful to satisfy with any member of the transgender group, however that he would not be swayed by "anyone's calls for" to censor his routine.

"To the transgender group, I'm more than keen to give you an audience, but you'll not summon me. I am not bending to anybody's calls for," he informed an viewers in a clip posted to his Instagram. 

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

"If you wanna meet with me, I might be more than willing to, however I've situations: To start with, you can not come if in case you have not watched my particular from starting to finish. You will need to come to a place of my selecting and a time of my choosing. And thirdly, you should admit that Hannah Gadsby is not funny."  

The Associated Press contributed reporting.

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