Anthony Bechtatou - Faites Du Bruit

Anthony Bechtatou shakes up Le Boui-Boui with Faites du bruit

At Le Boui-Boui, we love nights when the room hums before the first laugh, and Anthony Bechtatou’s Faites du bruit is built for exactly that charged, intimate atmosphere. Our stage is close, our ceiling low, and the energy ricochets; Anthony plays that space like an instrument, turning each row into a section of the band. From the moment he steps up, the title is a promise: you are not just watching, you are part of the rhythm. We’ve tuned the room for crisp microphones and responsive lighting so his punchlines, callbacks, and physical beats land with precision. Expect quick shifts between storytelling and riffing, deft crowd work that never loses warmth, and a comic tempo that swells and drops by design. In our black-box setting, every gesture reads, every reaction matters, and Anthony thrives on that immediacy—he listens, he bounces, and he invites the audience to lift the volume together.

Current momentum, recent touchstones, and a live show that breathes

Anthony’s artistic moment aligns with a new wave of French stand‑up that prizes presence, honesty, and musicality in the writing. Fans of recent comedy fixtures—like the rapid-fire club showcases popularized by Jamel Comedy Club, the tightly crafted festival clips that circulate from Montreux Comedy, or the character-driven storytelling that many discovered through Drôle—will recognize the modern pacing and narrative agility he brings to the stage. Without chasing trends, he taps into the same appetite for true-to-life scenes: awkward lifts in apartment blocks, the choreography of public transport, open‑space etiquette, family table negotiations, and the micro‑dramas of dating apps. If you follow contemporary comedy online, you’ll hear echoes of those nimble, bite-sized formats in his set, yet the live version breathes more widely; he lets silences stretch, then snaps them with a tag, and he’s unafraid to turn a spontaneous audience riff into a recurring motif for the night. That balance—meticulous structure meeting the volatility of the room—is precisely why we’re proud to host him at Le Boui-Boui: the show rewards attention, and it rewards participation.

Faites du bruit is, at heart, a conversation orchestrated like a score. Anthony treats the microphone as a percussive tool, punctuating act-outs with breath, taps, and pauses that our sound design happily amplifies. There is playful choreography to his movement—shifts of stance to mark different characters, a quick slide downstage to heighten a reveal, a glance to the back row to seal a punchline. He mines everyday soundscapes—the upstairs neighbor’s inexplicable schedule, the syncopation of a ringtone in the metro, the hushed conspiracies of a late-night kebab queue—and turns them into a shared rhythm the whole audience recognizes. When he leans into crowd work, it’s never throwaway: he circles back, braiding spontaneous answers into later bits so that the room’s own words become part of the script. For our team at Le Boui-Boui, that’s a thrill to facilitate; we shape the lighting to catch the sparkle in a heckler’s eye without feeding chaos, we ride the faders to keep laughter crisp but the stage intimate, and we let the night expand organically. If your recent comedy diet includes the punchy showcases of Jamel Comedy Club or the tightly edited Montreux Comedy videos, you’ll find a complementary pleasure here: the same sharp instincts, but stretched across a full, living arc. And true to its name, Faites du bruit doesn’t just tolerate a vocal crowd—it needs one; in our room, your laughter becomes a cue, your gasp a cymbal, your applause the downbeat that lets Anthony kick into the next movement.