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

Comedian Dave Chappelle was attacked onstage Tuesday night time as he performed at Los Angeles' Hollywood Bowl arena, with movies from audience members' cellphones quickly flooding social media and exhibiting 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 (Notice: Linked video contains harsh language together with 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 one that charged Chappelle being detained outside the venue by police and then loaded into an ambulance with seen accidents.

Witnesses said — and movies appeared to indicate — that the person 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

While your complete debacle was captured in multiple movies shot by members of the viewers, cellular phone use was formally banned through the performance.  

The motivation for the preliminary attack remained unclear, and there was no instant response from the Los Angeles Police Department to CBS Information' request for details about the incident.

Just got here out of the Hollywood Bowl where a person charged and tackled Dave Chapelle on stage and acquired his ass kicked by no less than 10 individuals.

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

Comedian 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 12 months from the transgender community for jokes at their expense featured in his latest Netflix particular, "The Closer," which premiered in October.

Netflix stood by the Washington D.C. native, continuing to air the particular regardless of hundreds of its own employees staging a walk-out over what they deemed Chappelle's transphobic jokes.

The comic later stated he'd be blissful to fulfill with any member of the transgender group, however that he would not be swayed by "anyone's calls for" to censor his routine.

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

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

"In case you wanna meet with me, I'd be greater than prepared to, however I have circumstances: To start with, you cannot come you probably have not watched my special from starting to end. You could come to a spot of my choosing and a time of my choosing. And thirdly, you will need to admit that Hannah Gadsby just isn't humorous."  

The Associated Press contributed reporting.

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