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

Comic Dave Chappelle was attacked onstage Tuesday night as he performed at Los Angeles' Hollywood Bowl enviornment, with videos from audience members' cellphones shortly flooding social media and showing a person seem 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 (Notice: Linked video accommodates harsh language including profanity) with fellow comic and actor Jamie Foxx onstage that he'd taken revenge on his attacker.

Movies posted to Twitter appeared to indicate the person who charged Chappelle being detained outside the venue by police and then loaded into an ambulance with visible accidents.

Witnesses said — and videos appeared to indicate — that the person was set upon by a number of individuals 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 movies shot by members of the viewers, cellular phone use was officially banned during the performance.  

The motivation for the initial assault remained unclear, and there was no instant response from the Los Angeles Police Division to CBS News' 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 bought his ass kicked by no less than 10 individuals.

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

Comedian Chris Rock was on 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 pointy rebuke late final year from the transgender community 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, continuing to air the particular despite tons of of its own employees 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, but that he would not be swayed by "anybody's demands" to censor his routine.

"To the transgender group, I am greater than willing to present you an audience, but you will not summon me. I am not bending to anyone's demands," he told an viewers in a clip posted to his Instagram. 

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

"For those who wanna meet with me, I would be greater than prepared to, however I've circumstances: To begin with, you can not come you probably have not watched my particular from beginning to end. You must come to a place of my choosing and a time of my selecting. And thirdly, you have to admit that Hannah Gadsby isn't funny."  

The Associated Press contributed reporting.

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