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

Comic Dave Chappelle was attacked onstage Tuesday night time as he carried out at Los Angeles' Hollywood Bowl enviornment, with videos from audience members' cellphones shortly 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 (Word: Linked video contains harsh language together with profanity) with fellow comedian and actor Jamie Foxx onstage that he'd taken revenge on his attacker.

Videos posted to Twitter appeared to indicate the one that charged Chappelle being detained outdoors the venue by police and then loaded into an ambulance with visible 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 beaten down after attacking Dave Chappelle at Hollywood Bowl pic.twitter.com/Ft0FIUyjWv

While the complete debacle was captured in a number of videos shot by members of the viewers, cell phone use was officially banned through the efficiency.  

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

Just got here out of the Hollywood Bowl the place a man charged and tackled Dave Chapelle on stage and obtained his ass kicked by at least 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 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 sharp rebuke late last year from the transgender neighborhood for jokes at their expense featured in his latest Netflix particular, "The Nearer," which premiered in October.

Netflix stood by the Washington D.C. native, persevering with to air the particular regardless of a whole lot of its own workers staging a walk-out over what they deemed Chappelle's transphobic jokes.

The comic later mentioned he'd be happy to meet with any member of the transgender group, 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 provide you an viewers, however you'll not summon me. I am not bending to anyone's demands," he advised an audience in a clip posted to his Instagram. 

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

"In the event you wanna meet with me, I'd be more than keen to, but I've circumstances: Initially, you can not come if in case you have not watched my particular from starting to finish. It's essential to come to a place of my selecting and a time of my selecting. And thirdly, you could admit that Hannah Gadsby is just not funny."  

The Related Press contributed reporting.

Tucker Reals is the CBSNews.com foreign editor, based mostly on the CBS Information London bureau.