Alexandre Kominek - Batard Sensible (tournée)

Alexandre Kominek brings Bâtard Sensible to Lyon

We are delighted to welcome Alexandre Kominek and his Bâtard Sensible to Bourse du Travail Lyon as part of the Tournée, a night where our stage becomes the confidant to his sharp humor and disarming honesty. From the moment the houselights dip, his presence sets the tone: conversational, agile, and irresistibly personal. Our audience cherishes performers who can turn intimate confessions into collective laughter, and Kominek excels at that alchemy. Expect a performance that draws on his Swiss roots while speaking directly to the rhythms of Lyon’s live scene—quicksilver changes of pace, precise silences, and punchlines that land with the crispness of a well-aimed aside. We’ve tuned the room for the kind of stand-up he favors: clean lines, unobtrusive light, and sound that captures every whisper and ricocheted thought, allowing his storytelling to breathe and his risk-taking to shine.

On-stage: timing, themes, and recent buzz

Bâtard Sensible is Kominek’s most revealing hour yet, a balance of swagger and fragility that keeps the crowd both laughing and leaning in. He circles themes of identity and intimacy, skewers the vanities of modern masculinity, and plays with the gap between how we perform ourselves and who we actually are. The writing is meticulous—callbacks stitched into offhand remarks, playful asides that pay off minutes later—yet it always feels alive to the room. Whether you discovered him through Montreux Comedy galas, caught him on RTS’s 26 minutes, or listened to his free-flowing conversation on Un Bon Moment, you will recognize the same kinetic energy here, polished by the road and sharpened by countless encounters with audiences across Switzerland and France. The pleasure, for us, is hosting that tightrope walk: the precision of a craftsman married to the spontaneity of someone who refuses to retreat into formula.

In Lyon, the Tournée stop gives Bâtard Sensible an additional charge: a city known for its appetite for live performance meeting a comedian who invites the room to complete his thought. Kominek sculpts tension without rushing, lets vulnerability coexist with audacity, and turns small autobiographical details into launchpads for larger, communal laughter. His set thrives on contrasts—tender versus teasing, restraint versus release—and our room is prepared to honor those shifts with an unobtrusive technical footprint that foregrounds what matters: his voice, his timing, and the delicate triangulation between performer, text, and audience. As ever, we program nights like this because they remind us why stand-up belongs on a great stage: it is immediate, human-scale, and uniquely reactive to the mood of the evening. Bâtard Sensible arrives in Lyon as a living piece of work—current, conversational, and proudly shaped by the encounters that have fueled this Tournée so far.