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

Comic Dave Chappelle was attacked onstage Tuesday night time as he carried out at Los Angeles' Hollywood Bowl enviornment, with movies from viewers members' cellphones quickly flooding social media and showing a person seem 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 accommodates harsh language together with 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 outdoors the venue by police and then loaded into an ambulance with seen injuries.

Witnesses said — and movies appeared to show — that the person was set upon by multiple folks onstage instantly 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 throughout the efficiency.  

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

Simply came out of the Hollywood Bowl the place a man charged and tackled Dave Chapelle on stage and bought his ass kicked by not less than 10 people.

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

Comic Chris Rock was on 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 sharp rebuke late final year from the transgender community for jokes at their expense featured in his newest Netflix particular, "The Closer," which premiered in October.

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

The comic later said he'd be glad to satisfy with any member of the transgender community, however that he wouldn't be swayed by "anyone's calls for" to censor his routine.

"To the transgender neighborhood, I'm greater than prepared to present you an viewers, however you'll not summon me. I am not bending to anyone'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 have conditions: To start with, you can not come when you've got not watched my particular from starting to end. You will need to come to a spot of my choosing and a time of my selecting. And thirdly, you could admit that Hannah Gadsby shouldn't be humorous."  

The Associated Press contributed reporting.

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