Camille Lienard - C'est Pas La Nuit Qu'elle Dort

At Le Boui-Boui: welcoming Camille Lienard with C'est pas la nuit qu'elle dort

At Le Boui-Boui, we love shows that feel as alive and alert as our intimate room, and C'est pas la nuit qu'elle dort fits that spirit perfectly. In this new date on our stage, Camille Lienard brings a nocturnal pulse to the mic: sharp, restless, and tenderly observant about the hours when everyone else is asleep and the mind insists on staying wide awake. From our vantage point in the room, what stands out is the way she bends silence and surprise into laughter. The space at Le Boui-Boui is compact by design, so every beat of timing, every confessional aside, and every sudden pivot lands with vivid clarity. The audience sits close enough to catch a raised eyebrow, and Camille’s material thrives on that closeness—the give-and-take that turns a late-night thought into a shared joke. Expect a set that oscillates between vulnerable storytelling and quickfire punchlines, with the kind of conversational energy that our regulars seek out here, night after night.

Artistic momentum and recent highlights

There is a wider artistic moment to this appearance at Le Boui-Boui: the ground is shifting under contemporary francophone stand-up, and Camille Lienard is clearly moving with it. If you follow the scene, you’ve likely crossed paths with the candid, slice-of-life tone powering recent showcases like Génération Paname, Le Fridge – Le Show, Drôle de scène, or the latest Montreux Comedy Festival galas—formats where the comic’s voice, not elaborate sets, sets the temperature. C'est pas la nuit qu'elle dort leans into that same immediacy, distilling daily anxieties, romantic near-misses, and that stubborn midnight inner monologue into sketches that feel almost diaristic. From our side of the footlights, what we admire is Camille’s craft in building a through-line: motifs return in new disguises, callbacks snap into focus, and the audience realizes midway that a casual remark from the opening has quietly become the spine of the hour. It’s the kind of structure that rewards attention without ever feeling academic; the laughter remains front and center, and the humanity of the stories keeps people leaning in. For a room like ours—where precision and intimacy matter—this momentum reads as both artistic maturity and a promise of new discoveries each night.

Hosting C'est pas la nuit qu'elle dort at Le Boui-Boui also means embracing a staging ethos that lets Camille Lienard’s voice do the heavy lifting. We keep the production lean: warm lights, crisp sound, and a room calibrated so that whispers and roars carry just as well. That simplicity amplifies her strengths. She riffs with the front row, catches a detail across the aisle, and turns a stray comment into a fully-fledged bit before you’ve had the chance to take another sip. Our team has seen how audiences respond when a comedian invites them into the creative process in real time—those sparks of improvisation that make each performance distinct. Around that, the set’s recurring obsessions—sleep that never quite arrives, the rituals of daylight survival, the comedy hiding inside small catastrophes—form a confident arc. It’s a show tuned to the present: restless, funny, and ultimately connective, the kind of hour that feels designed for a room like Le Boui-Boui, where every seat is the best seat to catch a thought becoming a laugh.