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

Comedian Dave Chappelle was attacked onstage Tuesday evening as he carried out at Los Angeles' Hollywood Bowl area, with movies from audience members' cellphones shortly flooding social media and exhibiting a man seem to run onto the stage and deal with 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 comprises 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 person who charged Chappelle being detained exterior the venue by police after which loaded into an ambulance with seen accidents.

Witnesses mentioned — and videos appeared to point out — that the person was set upon by multiple individuals onstage instantly after he attacked Chappelle. 

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

Whereas your complete debacle was captured in multiple movies shot by members of the audience, cellular phone use was formally banned during the efficiency.  

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

Simply came out of the Hollywood Bowl the place a person charged and tackled Dave Chapelle on stage and bought his ass kicked by a minimum of 10 people.

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

Comedian Chris Rock was at the show, 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 year from the transgender community for jokes at their expense featured in his newest Netflix particular, "The Nearer," which premiered in October.

Netflix stood by the Washington D.C. native, persevering with to air the special regardless of tons of of its personal workers staging a walk-out over what they deemed Chappelle's transphobic jokes.

The comedian later stated he'd be comfortable to fulfill with any member of the transgender neighborhood, but that he would not be swayed by "anybody's calls for" to censor his routine.

"To the transgender community, I'm greater than prepared to give you an audience, but you will 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 comic listed three circumstances for any potential assembly, and responded to fellow comic Hannah Gadsby, who labelled Chapelle's Netflix special "hate speech."

"For those who wanna meet with me, I would be more than willing to, but I have situations: To start with, you can not come when you've got not watched my special from beginning to finish. It's essential to come to a spot of my choosing and a time of my selecting. And thirdly, you will need to admit that Hannah Gadsby shouldn't be funny."  

The Related Press contributed reporting.

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