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

Comic Dave Chappelle was attacked onstage Tuesday night time as he performed at Los Angeles' Hollywood Bowl area, with videos from audience members' cellphones quickly flooding social media and displaying a person appear to run onto the stage and tackle 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 contains harsh language including profanity) with fellow comic and actor Jamie Foxx onstage that he'd taken revenge on his attacker.

Videos posted to Twitter appeared to point out the person who charged Chappelle being detained exterior 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 individuals onstage immediately after he attacked Chappelle. 

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

Whereas the whole 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 preliminary attack remained unclear, and there was no quick response from the Los Angeles Police Department to CBS News' request for information about the incident.

Simply got here out of the Hollywood Bowl the place a person charged and tackled Dave Chapelle on stage and bought his ass kicked by at the very 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 show, 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 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 a whole lot of its own employees staging a walk-out over what they deemed Chappelle's transphobic jokes.

The comedian later said he'd be pleased to satisfy with any member of the transgender community, but that he wouldn't be swayed by "anyone's demands" to censor his routine.

"To the transgender neighborhood, I'm more than prepared to provide you an viewers, however you'll not summon me. I am not bending to anyone's calls for," he advised an viewers in a clip posted to his Instagram. 

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

"Should you wanna meet with me, I would be greater than willing to, but I've situations: First of all, you can not come when you have not watched my special from starting to end. You should come to a spot of my choosing and a time of my selecting. And thirdly, you could admit that Hannah Gadsby isn't funny."  

The Associated Press contributed reporting.

Tucker Reals is the CBSNews.com overseas editor, primarily based at the CBS News London bureau.