Clem Monchalin - Sur Un Coup De Tête

Le Boui-Boui presents a razor‑sharp hour with Clem Monchalin

At Le Boui-Boui, we relish performances that feel alive in the room, and Clem Monchalin brings exactly that electricity with Sur un coup de tête. Our intimate stage amplifies her fast, finely tuned storytelling, the kind that keeps you leaning in while the next punchline is already forming. True to its title, this show plays with the thrilling, sometimes chaotic logic of impulse: the text you regret then defend, the sudden trip, the job choice made for reasons you can’t quite explain, and the way instinct collides with family, love, and the micro-dramas of daily life. Clem’s delivery is both nimble and disarmingly precise; she slips from a sharply drawn character to a confessional aside in a blink, using silence as deftly as a tag. In our room, every eyebrow raise and beat of timing lands, turning Sur un coup de tête into a collective game of recognition, where the audience hears their own inner monologues refracted through a comic lens.

Current momentum: a voice shaped by the new wave of French stand‑up

As a venue, we’re seeing a generation of comics sharpen their craft across short-form clips and tightly built club sets, and Clem Monchalin is very much in that vanguard. Her writing thrives on economy—setups that seem casual, then snap into focus—and she rides the crowd’s energy with the kind of agility that makes each performance feel bespoke. Audiences who follow recent showcases like Le Fridge on Prime Video, Soixante on Canal+, Paname Comedy Club on Comédie+, or the Montreux Comedy Festival will recognize the contemporary pace: quick pivots, authentic perspective, and the shrewd use of personal detail that opens onto bigger cultural observations. In Sur un coup de tête, those strengths coalesce into a narrative spine that keeps returning to the moment you say “yes” before you can invent a reason to say “no.” It’s observational, but never generic; personal, without lapsing into diary pages; and crafted to land in a room like ours, where the front row’s laughter can ricochet to the back wall and back again.

For us at Le Boui-Boui, part of the excitement is how this show breathes with the room. Clem Monchalin choreographs interaction without losing the thread, weaving spontaneous exchanges into running themes that reward attention. You hear echoes as the hour unfolds: a throwaway detail in minute five returns as a callback in minute fifty, and a self-mocking confession becomes a broader portrait of how a “coup de tête” can expose our contradictions with generosity rather than cynicism. The writing has the clean architecture of a club hour, yet leaves space for discovery—fresh tags when a line hits differently, tightened beats when the rhythm begs for a quicker turn. That evolving quality is the sign of an artist in motion, building on each date, strengthening transitions, and pushing toward ever-surer phrasing. If you’ve been craving a set that captures the immediacy of live comedy—heart rate up, laughter rolling, the sense that a shared risk just paid off—Sur un coup de tête at Le Boui-Boui is where that spark meets craft in real time.