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 quickly flooding social media and exhibiting a person 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 (Notice: Linked video contains 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 show the one that charged Chappelle being detained exterior the venue by police and then loaded into an ambulance with seen injuries.

Witnesses said — and videos appeared to point out — that the man was set upon by a number of folks onstage instantly after he attacked Chappelle. 

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

While your complete debacle was captured in a number of videos shot by members of the viewers, mobile phone use was formally banned throughout the efficiency.  

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

Just came out of the Hollywood Bowl where a person charged and tackled Dave Chapelle on stage and acquired his ass kicked by at least 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 on the Academy Awards in March.

Chappelle drew a sharp rebuke late final 12 months from the transgender community for jokes at their expense featured in his latest Netflix special, "The Closer," which premiered in October.

Netflix stood by the Washington D.C. native, continuing 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 mentioned he'd be pleased to satisfy with any member of the transgender neighborhood, however that he would not be swayed by "anybody's calls for" to censor his routine.

"To the transgender community, I'm more than willing to give you an viewers, but you'll not summon me. I am not bending to anybody's calls for," he instructed 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 case you wanna meet with me, I'd be greater than keen to, but I've conditions: To start with, you cannot come in case you have not watched my special from starting to end. You must come to a spot of my selecting and a time of my selecting. And thirdly, you must admit that Hannah Gadsby shouldn't be humorous."  

The Associated Press contributed reporting.

Tucker Reals is the CBSNews.com overseas editor, primarily based on the CBS Information London bureau.