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 arena, with movies from viewers members' cellphones quickly flooding social media and displaying a person 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 (Note: Linked video contains 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 show the person who charged Chappelle being detained outside the venue by police and then loaded into an ambulance with seen accidents.

Witnesses stated — and movies appeared to show — that the man was set upon by a number of people onstage immediately after he attacked Chappelle. 

The idiot getting crushed 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 viewers, cell phone use was officially banned through the performance.  

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

Just came out of the Hollywood Bowl the place a person charged and tackled Dave Chapelle on stage and received his ass kicked by a minimum of 10 individuals.

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

Comic 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 year 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 hundreds of its personal workers staging a walk-out over what they deemed Chappelle's transphobic jokes.

The comedian later said he'd be comfortable to meet with any member of the transgender community, however that he wouldn't be swayed by "anybody's calls for" to censor his routine.

"To the transgender community, I'm greater than keen to present you an viewers, but you'll not summon me. I'm not bending to anyone's calls for," he told an viewers in a clip posted to his Instagram. 

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

"In case you wanna meet with me, I would be more than keen to, however I have conditions: First of all, you can't come you probably have not watched my particular from beginning to end. You have to come to a spot of my choosing and a time of my choosing. And thirdly, you need to admit that Hannah Gadsby is not humorous."  

The Associated Press contributed reporting.

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