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

Comic Dave Chappelle was attacked onstage Tuesday night as he carried out at Los Angeles' Hollywood Bowl enviornment, with movies from audience members' cellphones shortly flooding social media and exhibiting a man 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 (Observe: Linked video contains harsh language together with profanity) with fellow comedian and actor Jamie Foxx onstage that he'd taken revenge on his attacker.

Movies 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 indicate — that the person was set upon by a number of individuals onstage immediately after he attacked Chappelle. 

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

While all the debacle was captured in a number of movies shot by members of the viewers, cell phone use was formally banned during the performance.  

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

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

LAPD and LAFD at the moment are 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 at the Academy Awards in March.

Chappelle drew a pointy rebuke late final year 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 particular despite a whole bunch of its personal employees staging a walk-out over what they deemed Chappelle's transphobic jokes.

The comic later stated he'd be happy to meet with any member of the transgender neighborhood, however that he would not be swayed by "anyone's demands" to censor his routine.

"To the transgender community, I'm more than willing to present you an viewers, however you'll not summon me. I am not bending to anybody's demands," he informed an viewers in a clip posted to his Instagram. 

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

"In the event you wanna meet with me, I might be more than willing to, but I've situations: To begin with, you can't come you probably have not watched my special from beginning to end. You must come to a spot of my selecting and a time of my choosing. And thirdly, you must admit that Hannah Gadsby shouldn't be humorous."  

The Related Press contributed reporting.

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