Aymeric Lompret - Yolo - Tournée

Aymeric Lompret arrives in Lyon with YOLO Tournée

We are delighted to welcome Aymeric Lompret and his YOLO Tournée to our stage in Lyon, a city that thrives on sharp wit and uncompromising artistry. From our vantage point backstage, what strikes us most about this comedian is his instinct for timing: he lets silence breathe, then detonates a punchline that ricochets across the room. That contrasts playfully with his reputation for searing, socially alert humor. Expect an evening honed for live performance—minimal set, maximal presence—where the intimacy of stand-up heightens every aside, smirk, and sotto voce jab. The Lyon audience’s appetite for incisive, contemporary comedy makes this date a focal point of the tour. We have prepared a listening-forward configuration that supports his voice at a whisper as surely as it does his crescendos, because his brand of irony often pivots on nuance. Being in the room for YOLO means sharing the breath of a show designed to unfold in real time, in French, with a spontaneity that only a tightly packed crowd and a fearless performer can generate.

Artistically, Aymeric Lompret continues to sharpen an identity that embraces contradiction: caustic yet warm, indignant yet mischievous. YOLO is where his current concerns meet his knack for crystallizing the absurdity of everyday civic life, the rituals of work, generational postures, and the delicate art of not taking oneself too seriously. He carries the momentum of standout festival sets—his turns at the Montreux Comedy Festival are a staple for many fans discovering his writing—and the lasting visibility of television moments such as On n’demande qu’à en rire, whose clips keep circulating to new audiences. Far from resting on past laurels, he has been touring relentlessly, refining transitions and adding lightning-quick tags that give the show a living, breathing quality from month to month. In Lyon, that evolution will be tangible: the latest beat adjustments land with the precision of a drummer who knows exactly where to place the snare so the laugh breaks right on the downbeat.

What the Lyon audience can expect from YOLO

From our side of the curtain, YOLO reads like a conversation with the present moment. The set opens with a loose-limbed ease, then tightens as Aymeric tests the room’s temperature: how far will Lyon go with provocation, how deep with sincerity? He toggles between pointed social observation and unapologetically silly detours, so a riff on public policy may suddenly collapse into a confession about late-night snacks, travel mishaps, or the fragile heroism of daily commuters. That elasticity is the architecture of the night. Technically, we’ve dialed in a crisp, intimate sound and kept the lighting natty and focused—just enough contour to frame the gestures that punctuate his deadpan, without stealing heat from the jokes. Audience interplay is part of the design: he may glance down an aisle to pick up a murmured aside, or circle back to a front-row reaction twenty minutes later. The show’s pacing invites that interplay without ever losing the throughline. If you’ve followed his recent festival highlights or revisited his emblematic television appearances, you’ll recognize the spine—acerbic clarity, mistrust of cheap moralizing—but you’ll also hear new passages sculpted on the road. It is precisely this blend of craft and risk that makes the Lyon stop feel essential: a meeting of a comedian at full speed and a public ready to run with him.