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

Comic Dave Chappelle was attacked onstage Tuesday evening as he performed at Los Angeles' Hollywood Bowl arena, with movies from audience members' cellphones rapidly flooding social media and exhibiting a man seem to run onto the stage and deal with the comic.

Chappelle, whose unapologetic humor has made him a lightning rod for criticism, appeared unscathed by the sudden interruption and later joked (Note: Linked video accommodates 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 indicate the one who charged Chappelle being detained outdoors the venue by police after which loaded into an ambulance with visible accidents.

Witnesses said — and movies appeared to indicate — that the man was set upon by multiple folks onstage immediately after he attacked Chappelle. 

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

While the entire debacle was captured in a number of movies shot by members of the audience, cellular phone use was officially banned throughout the performance.  

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

Just came out of the Hollywood Bowl the place a person charged and tackled Dave Chapelle on stage and acquired his ass kicked by no less than 10 folks.

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

Comic Chris Rock was at the show, and jokingly asked 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 12 months from the transgender group for jokes at their expense featured in his newest Netflix particular, "The Nearer," 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 staff staging a walk-out over what they deemed Chappelle's transphobic jokes.

The comedian later said he'd be comfortable to satisfy with any member of the transgender group, but that he would not be swayed by "anybody's calls for" to censor his routine.

"To the transgender community, I am more than keen to offer you an viewers, but you will not summon me. I'm not bending to anyone's demands," he told an audience in a clip posted to his Instagram. 

The 48-year-old comic listed three conditions 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 might be more than keen to, but I've situations: First of all, you can not come you probably have not watched my particular from beginning to end. You will need to come to a place of my choosing and a time of my selecting. And thirdly, you need to admit that Hannah Gadsby is just not funny."  

The Related Press contributed reporting.

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