Clem Monchalin - Sur Un Coup De Tête

Sur un coup de tête at Le Boui-Boui

At Le Boui-Boui, we are delighted to welcome Clem Monchalin with Sur un coup de tête, a sharp, high-spirited hour tailor-made for the intimacy and immediacy of our room. From our vantage point just off the stage, we love how her comedy thrives on proximity: quick pivots, expressive storytelling, and that extra spark that comes from making eye contact with the front row. The show’s core—impulse, bold choices, and the hilarious fallout they trigger—lands with precision here, where every pause and raised eyebrow counts. Expect deft observations about friendships, dating, family negotiations, and the curious tug-of-war between gut instinct and social expectations. The energy of Sur un coup de tête is playful yet meticulously structured, balancing confessional beats with set-piece mischief, and it fits the pulse of Le Boui-Boui, a space built for comic timing, call-and-response chemistry, and those spontaneous detours that turn one-liners into shared memories.

The artist’s current momentum

From our stage-side perspective, Clem Monchalin’s current momentum is unmistakable. You can feel it in the way she stacks callbacks, in the economy of her punchlines, and in the confidence with which she rides audience reactions to find brand-new angles in the moment. Audiences familiar with the rhythm of contemporary stand-up—through shows like Soixante, Le Fridge, Jamel Comedy Club, or the Paname Comedy Club TV recordings—will recognize the brisk cadence and the premium placed on originality. Sur un coup de tête embraces that modern tempo while remaining personal and grounded: impulsive choices become mini-epics, everyday mishaps become mythic, and even second thoughts become recurring characters. We appreciate how she uses the room’s intimacy to test tiny shifts in delivery, letting silence do half the work and then cracking it open with a left-field tag. It’s a living show—elastic, responsive, and tuned to the specific mood of a packed Le Boui-Boui night.

As programmers who watch hours of comedy each week, we are especially drawn to the thematic range Clem Monchalin explores in Sur un coup de tête right now. She leans into the modern mess: decision fatigue in the age of notifications, the choreography of texting versus talking, our contradictory craving for spontaneity and control, and the domestic negotiations that turn trivial choices into grand strategy. Her voice oscillates between confident storyteller and gleeful instigator, with physical beats and character snippets that pop in a compact room like ours. This season, we’re hearing tighter transitions, brisker openers, and fresh tags that lift familiar premises into unexpected territory—a sign of an artist actively sharpening her craft for live audiences. The result at Le Boui-Boui is a night that feels built for the present tense: quick, vivid, and warmly interactive, with an afterglow that follows you out onto the streets of Lyon, still laughing about that one reckless choice you were sure you wouldn’t make… until you did.