Comic Dave Chappelle was once tackled all through a efficiency on the Hollywood Bowl Tuesday night time. Safety guards chased and overpowered the attacker, and Chappelle was once ready to proceed his efficiency whilst the person was once taken away in an ambulance.
NBC Information reported that the Los Angeles Police Division early Wednesday mentioned the person was once sporting a pretend gun with an actual knife blade inside of it. LAPD media family members made no authentic announcement of an arrest within the hours after the assault, and didn’t straight away reply to an Related Press request for main points.
Chappelle was once acting his standup regimen on the amphitheater as a part of the “Netflix Is a Shaggy dog story” competition when the person rushed on degree and tackled him. Jamie Foxx was once within the wings of the degree and Chappelle thanked him for responding to the assault. Chris Rock was once there as neatly, and jokingly requested if the attacker was once Will Smith.
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Chappelle was once attacked as he was once wrapping up a regimen wherein he mentioned how comedians have to fret extra about their private safety within the wake of this 12 months’s Academy Awards rite the place the Oscar-winning actor slapped Rock on are living tv in response to a shaggy dog story about his spouse.
“The comic had actually simply mentioned he now has extra safety as a result of the entire uproar from his jokes concerning the Trans neighborhood,” tweeted Buzzfeed Information reporter Brianna Sacks, who attended the display. She tweeted that “whilst the attacker was once getting beat up,” Chappelle “made a shaggy dog story about him most probably being a Trans guy.”
