May 04, (THEWILL) -American stand-up comedian, Dave Chappelle, was attacked while performing a Netflix comedy show in Los Angeles on Tuesday night, May 3.
A video from the Netflix Is A Joke event shows a man charging onto the stage and tackling the comedian before being dragged off by security.
Chappelle appeared to be uninjured and continued with his joke saying, “It was a trans man.”
Comic actor, Jamie Foxx, who was watching the show at the Hollywood Bowl, wearing a sheriff’s hat, rushed on stage to help detain the attacker.
Chris Rock, who performed at the event, joked: “Was that Will Smith?” after his own violent outburst on stage at the Oscars in March.
After the attacker was detained, Chappelle thanked Foxx on stage during the curtain call.
Chappelle came under fire last year over jokes about trans people in his Netflix comedy show The Closer.
During the controversial special, he made one comment stating that ‘gender is a fact’, prompting Netflix staff to protest and mass outrage on social media against some of his jokes.
In the special, he stated that he does not hate transgender people, and told the story of a long anecdote about a trans woman comic, who he describes as a friend, who came to his defence in earlier entanglements with the community.
He also joked that women today view transwomen the same way black people might view white women wearing blackface, and remarked that women are entitled to feel anger toward transwomen, since Caitlyn Jenner won Glamour magazine’s 2015 Woman of the Year award.
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