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

Comedian Dave Chappelle was attacked onstage Tuesday evening as he carried out at Los Angeles' Hollywood Bowl enviornment, with videos from audience members' cellphones rapidly flooding social media and showing a man 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 (Observe: Linked video accommodates harsh language including profanity) with fellow comedian and actor Jamie Foxx onstage that he'd taken revenge on his attacker.

Videos posted to Twitter appeared to point out the one who charged Chappelle being detained outdoors the venue by police after which loaded into an ambulance with visible injuries.

Witnesses mentioned — and movies appeared to point out — that the man was set upon by multiple folks onstage instantly after he attacked Chappelle. 

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

Whereas the entire debacle was captured in multiple videos shot by members of the audience, cellular phone use was officially banned in the course of the efficiency.  

The motivation for the preliminary assault remained unclear, and there was no speedy response from the Los Angeles Police Department to CBS News' 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 received his ass kicked by a minimum of 10 folks.

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

Comedian Chris Rock was at the show, 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 last 12 months from the transgender neighborhood 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 regardless of tons of of its own employees staging a walk-out over what they deemed Chappelle's transphobic jokes.

The comic later said he'd be glad to meet with any member of the transgender community, however that he would not be swayed by "anyone's demands" to censor his routine.

"To the transgender community, I'm greater than keen to offer you an viewers, however you will not summon me. I am not bending to anybody's calls for," he instructed an audience 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 particular "hate speech."

"When you wanna meet with me, I'd be more than keen to, however I have situations: To begin with, you cannot come if you have not watched my particular from beginning to end. You could come to a place of my choosing and a time of my selecting. And thirdly, you could admit that Hannah Gadsby shouldn't be funny."  

The Related Press contributed reporting.

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