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

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

Chappelle, whose unapologetic humor has made him a lightning rod for criticism, appeared unscathed by the sudden interruption and later joked (Notice: Linked video incorporates 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 show the one that charged Chappelle being detained outside the venue by police after which loaded into an ambulance with seen injuries.

Witnesses stated — and videos appeared to point out — that the person was set upon by a number of people onstage instantly after he attacked Chappelle. 

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

While the entire debacle was captured in multiple movies shot by members of the viewers, mobile phone use was officially banned throughout the performance.  

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

Simply got here out of the Hollywood Bowl where a man charged and tackled Dave Chapelle on stage and obtained his ass kicked by not less than 10 people.

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

Comic 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 on the Academy Awards in March.

Chappelle drew a pointy rebuke late final 12 months from the transgender group for jokes at their expense featured in his newest Netflix special, "The Nearer," which premiered in October.

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

The comedian later said he'd be happy to satisfy with any member of the transgender neighborhood, however that he would not be swayed by "anybody's calls for" to censor his routine.

"To the transgender group, I am greater than willing to present you an audience, however you will not summon me. I am not bending to anybody's demands," he instructed an viewers in a clip posted to his Instagram. 

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

"In case you wanna meet with me, I would be more than willing to, but I have conditions: To begin with, you can not come when you have not watched my particular from beginning to end. You must come to a place of my choosing and a time of my selecting. And thirdly, you have to admit that Hannah Gadsby is just not humorous."  

The Related Press contributed reporting.

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