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

Comic Dave Chappelle was attacked onstage Tuesday night time as he performed at Los Angeles' Hollywood Bowl area, with videos from viewers members' cellphones shortly flooding social media and showing a person appear to run onto the stage and sort out 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 comprises harsh language including profanity) with fellow comic and actor Jamie Foxx onstage that he'd taken revenge on his attacker.

Movies 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 visible accidents.

Witnesses stated — and movies appeared to indicate — that the person was set upon by a number of people onstage instantly after he attacked Chappelle. 

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

While your complete debacle was captured in multiple movies shot by members of the viewers, cellphone use was formally banned during 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 came out of the Hollywood Bowl the place a person charged and tackled Dave Chapelle on stage and received his ass kicked by at the least 10 people.

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

Comedian Chris Rock was at 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 last 12 months from the transgender community 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, continuing to air the particular regardless of a whole lot of its personal workers staging a walk-out over what they deemed Chappelle's transphobic jokes.

The comic later mentioned he'd be happy to fulfill with any member of the transgender group, but that he would not be swayed by "anyone's demands" to censor his routine.

"To the transgender group, I am greater than prepared to offer you an viewers, but you will not summon me. I'm not bending to anyone's demands," he told an viewers in a clip posted to his Instagram. 

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

"In case you wanna meet with me, I might be more than keen to, however I have conditions: Initially, you can not come if in case you have not watched my special from beginning to end. You must come to a place of my selecting and a time of my selecting. And thirdly, you have to admit that Hannah Gadsby just isn't funny."  

The Related Press contributed reporting.

Tucker Reals is the CBSNews.com international editor, based mostly at the CBS News London bureau.