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 area, with videos from viewers members' cellphones shortly flooding social media and displaying a person seem to run onto the stage and tackle 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 accommodates 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 point out the one who charged Chappelle being detained exterior the venue by police after which loaded into an ambulance with seen accidents.

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

The fool getting crushed 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, mobile phone use was formally banned during the efficiency.  

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

Simply got here out of the Hollywood Bowl where a person charged and tackled Dave Chapelle on stage and received his ass kicked by a minimum of 10 individuals.

LAPD and LAFD are actually 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 final year 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 special despite lots of of its own staff staging a walk-out over what they deemed Chappelle's transphobic jokes.

The comic later said he'd be completely happy to meet with any member of the transgender group, but that he would not be swayed by "anybody's demands" to censor his routine.

"To the transgender neighborhood, I am greater than keen to present you an viewers, but you will not summon me. I'm not bending to anybody's demands," he informed 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 special "hate speech."

"Should you wanna meet with me, I'd be more than prepared to, however I have conditions: To begin with, you cannot come if you have not watched my particular from beginning to finish. You must come to a place of my choosing and a time of my choosing. And thirdly, you have to admit that Hannah Gadsby isn't humorous."  

The Related Press contributed reporting.

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