Dave Chappelle was performing at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles as part of the Netflix Is A Joke Festival on Tuesday night (May 3) when he was attacked onstage.
Footage circulating on social media shows a man rushing the stage and charging toward Chappelle in an attempt to tackle him. The comedian, who is believed to be unhurt, managed to stay on his feet as the man went hurtling toward the ground.
It’s unclear what prompted the attack, but things didn’t end well for the culprit. Another video shows the man getting beaten up by a group of at least 10 people behind a screen at the back of the stage.
The attacker was later loaded into an ambulance, with various clips showing his face bruised and swollen and his right elbow twisted backwards as he sat on a stretcher.
According to KABC‘s Stephanie Walsh, the man was reportedly armed with a gun and a knife and was taken into police custody.
The attack happened toward the end of Chappelle’s set, just moments after he revealed he’d increased his security because of the backlash to his jokes about the trans community, per BuzzFeed News reporter Brianna Sacks.
As his security continued beating up the man, Chappelle returned to the mic and addressed the incident, joking about the attacker being a “trans man.”
Chappelle was later joined onstage by Jamie Foxx. “Whenever you in trouble, Jamie Foxx will show up in a sheriff’s hat,” Chappelle quipped. “N-gga, I thought that was part of the show. I grabbed the back of that n-gga’s head. His hair was spongy, absorbent.”
He added, “N-gga, I’ve been doing this 35 years. I just stomped a n-gga backstage. Always wanted to do that.”
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Foxx then joked, “I’m back there squeezing that n-gga, too,” before Chappelle said, “I seen Busta Rhymes there and he was like, ‘That’s how you do it, God.'”
Chris Rock — who was one of several special guests during Chappelle’s show — also returned to the stage after the attack and joked, “Was that Will Smith?” (Rock was slapped in the face by Smith at the 2022 Oscars in March.)
Open season on comedians?? wtf is this ??♂️
It’s just that the dude ain’t that damn funny
Long live Chappelle. That guys arm is a permanent lesson to people who think they can do this. Also Chris Rock is hilarious for that joke
Nice – CR is a broken man. Black men on WS side. He deserved to be bitch slapped cuz he ain’t nuttin but a lil bitch. Period. Bitch has White folks in his pocket, but Black folks knew he needed a slapdown.
Good for them. That guy deserved it. People need to calm the hell down. Will smith as given these people a licence. Some of these clowns are mentally weak. They offended by their own shadow.
Black folks don’t respect either one of dose Uncle Dave and Uncle Chris. All they friends are White folks. They put Black folks down, but we too stupid to pick up on dat. WS the better man by far
evil
The free thinking black man is a threat.
…by the black man
Yes. Black people hate black people more than they hate white people. Hip Hop/rap culture proves that
Retarded little racist White people are obsessed with Black people and ‘liberals’ more than anything else in the world. They live in their little sweaty, pink heads rent free lol. The comment section of this website, along with plenty of others, proves that.
Believe that if you want, but majority of whites in this country don’t want to live around black people.
Fortunately white people are not from North America, they can return to Europe if they want to. Many black people have Native American blood.
All CR and DC friends be White! They Uncle Dave and Chris! What have they done for Black folks? Put them down? Nah, I’m not sticking up for those lil bitches!
@Sollozzo
Retarded little racist White people are obsessed with Black people and ‘liberals’ more than anything else in the world. They live in their little sweaty, pink heads rent free lol. The comment section of this website, along with plenty of others, proves that.
Black people are more loyal to white than to their own race. The slave mentality still exists
You are white, most likely a white liberal.
Clearly white and lonely
Protect Dave Chappell at all costs! Absolute legend! F@#k anyone that says otherwise!
His stupid ass is lucky it’s a trip to the hospital and not the morgue. Nice try, rainbow people.
lmfao another retarded liberal gettin his ass handed to em. keep votin dem nikkas
You sir, are absolutely stupid.
His social media is filled with right wing shit so good try you moron
Also, you’re white, stop typing like that
Man they beat the brakes off ol dude. Face so swollen you can see him coming now…
Folks learned to be better prepared for the closet d*ck sucking b€tch who needs security to defend himself unlike a real man.
He’s a token uncle tom, hoise slave, closet di*k mo×*er fu€€er like his t*ash supphers who will either always he in the hood or trailer park but never qhere I’m sitting
Was that in English?