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

Comedian Dave Chappelle was attacked onstage Tuesday evening as he performed 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 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 (Word: Linked video accommodates 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 indicate the one that charged Chappelle being detained exterior the venue by police after which loaded into an ambulance with seen injuries.

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

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

Whereas the complete debacle was captured in multiple videos shot by members of the audience, cellphone use was officially banned during the performance.  

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

Simply came out of the Hollywood Bowl where a man charged and tackled Dave Chapelle on stage and received his ass kicked by at least 10 folks.

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 pointy rebuke late final yr from the transgender group for jokes at their expense featured in his latest Netflix special, "The Closer," which premiered in October.

Netflix stood by the Washington D.C. native, persevering with 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 stated he'd be joyful to meet 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 group, I'm greater than willing to present you an audience, but you'll not summon me. I'm not bending to anyone's calls for," he instructed 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."

"When you wanna meet with me, I would be more than willing to, but I have circumstances: First of all, you cannot come if you have not watched my special from starting to end. You must come to a spot of my choosing and a time of my selecting. And thirdly, you have to admit that Hannah Gadsby just isn't funny."  

The Associated Press contributed reporting.

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