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

Comedian Dave Chappelle was attacked onstage Tuesday night as he performed at Los Angeles' Hollywood Bowl area, with videos from viewers members' cellphones rapidly flooding social media and showing a man appear to run onto the stage and deal with the comic.

Chappelle, whose unapologetic humor has made him a lightning rod for criticism, appeared unscathed by the sudden interruption and later joked (Word: 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 accidents.

Witnesses mentioned — and movies appeared to show — that the person was set upon by a number of individuals onstage instantly after he attacked Chappelle. 

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

Whereas the whole debacle was captured in multiple videos shot by members of the viewers, cellphone use was officially banned in the course of the performance.  

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

Simply got here out of the Hollywood Bowl the place a man charged and tackled Dave Chapelle on stage and received his ass kicked by at least 10 people.

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

Comedian Chris Rock was at the present, 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 last 12 months from the transgender neighborhood for jokes at their expense featured in his latest Netflix particular, "The Nearer," which premiered in October.

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

The comic later mentioned he'd be pleased to meet with any member of the transgender community, but that he would not be swayed by "anyone's calls for" to censor his routine.

"To the transgender neighborhood, I'm greater than prepared to provide you an viewers, however you'll not summon me. I'm not bending to anyone's calls for," he advised an viewers in a clip posted to his Instagram. 

The 48-year-old comic listed three conditions 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'd be more than keen to, but I've circumstances: To begin with, you can't come when you've got not watched my particular from starting to finish. You must come to a place of my selecting and a time of my selecting. And thirdly, you need to admit that Hannah Gadsby is just not humorous."  

The Associated Press contributed reporting.

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