A friend of mine who's Asian went to see one of his shows, she was expecting to hear "offensive humour" and is fine with that (she loves Ricky Gervais, Frankie Boyle, the late Bill Hicks, and was expecting Frankie Boyle-style comedy) but he used numerous racial slurs which were all directed towards her directly and personally, and she was the only non-white person in the audience. After the show a group of men who'd been in the audience got in her way outside the venue toilets and started to heckle her, one even tried to groped her, and they called her the same racial slurs when she objected.
That is what people mean when they say they feel unsafe. A comedian onstage calling the only black person in the audience "ner" or the only Asian woman in the room "chy" sends a direct message to the rest of the audience that that person is fair game for abuse, and that it's socially acceptable to call people nr and cy. Yes it's intended as satire but you can't expect that everyone who goes to see a stand up show will be intellectually capable of discerning the nuance between "ironically" calling a woman "nr" or "hole" as a form of satire, and just calling them "n***r" and "hole". Especially if the audience is very drunk - bear in mind the audience are encouraged to get drunk and even the show description mentions drinking before hand.
It's fashionable to deride women wanting to feel safe as liberal woke snowflakes, but genuinely: imagine if you were one of the only women in an audience surrounded by leery drunk blokes, who were being egged by the man onstage on to degrade and women and to regard women as sluts and holes, in an environment where it's explicitly clear that it's acceptable to expose your genitals, would you as women really feel completely safe surrounded by a load of drunk blokes braying and guffawing about women being just holes for fucking? Would you feel safe pushing past them to get to the toilet, or walking across a dark car park afterwards knowing they were around?
Do you really think that extremely drunk men who've been ramped up and egged on by a rowdy and misogynistic environment are capable of understanding "women aren't really just holes who exist to be fucked it's just satire" and "it's completely fine for that specific man to get his dick out but not you, if you do it then it's wrong and illegal"?
I'm honestly astounded that feminists are defended a man who racially abuses female audience members and flashes his penis at women without their consent, just because of an unconfirmed rumour that he made anti-trans jokes and speculation that it was TRA who objected? (Which doesn't even seem to be true, none of the articles have mentioned transphobia at all - in fact the absence is jarring.) By all accounts trans people are the ONLY group that JS did not target or make jokes about - why is that I wonder?
I've been to a thousand comedy and fringe theatre shows in my life, I've done Edinburgh tons of times. I've seen shows where I've had food thrown over me, been dragged onstage, all kinds of nonsense. I've certainly seen plenty of shows that included nudity including 'Puppetry of the Penis'. I'm hardly a prude! But I've never seen a stand-up comedy show where the comedian just randomly got his dick out when the show description didn't mention nudity. I don't believe the arguments that women should have known to expect exposed penises and racial slurs just because the description said "offensive humour." Sick of women being blamed and having to take responsibility for male behaviour!