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

Comic Dave Chappelle was attacked onstage Tuesday evening as he carried out at Los Angeles' Hollywood Bowl arena, with videos from viewers members' cellphones shortly flooding social media and showing 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 including profanity) with fellow comedian and actor Jamie Foxx onstage that he'd taken revenge on his attacker.

Movies posted to Twitter appeared to point out 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 show — that the person was set upon by a number of individuals onstage immediately after he attacked Chappelle. 

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

Whereas the entire debacle was captured in a number of videos shot by members of the viewers, cell phone use was formally banned during the performance.  

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

Simply got here out of the Hollywood Bowl the place a man charged and tackled Dave Chapelle on stage and got his ass kicked by not less than 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 requested 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 neighborhood for jokes at their expense featured in his newest Netflix special, "The Closer," which premiered in October.

Netflix stood by the Washington D.C. native, continuing to air the special despite a whole lot of its own staff staging a walk-out over what they deemed Chappelle's transphobic jokes.

The comedian later mentioned 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 keen to present you an audience, however you will not summon me. I am not bending to anybody's demands," he informed an audience in a clip posted to his Instagram. 

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

"If you wanna meet with me, I might be more than willing to, but I've situations: To begin with, you can not come if you have not watched my special from starting to finish. You should come to a place of my choosing and a time of my choosing. And thirdly, you will need to admit that Hannah Gadsby is just not humorous."  

The Related Press contributed reporting.

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