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At Le Boui-Boui: a close-up return

At Le Boui-Boui, we love it when a performer outgrows the standard set and comes back with sharper claws, quicker timing, and that unmistakable hunger to test new ideas in front of a real crowd. That is exactly the spirit of Jim revient. From our compact stage—where every breath, eyebrow raise, and throwaway aside lands directly in your lap—Jim embraces the unique intimacy of our room to reconnect with audiences and unveil a freshly forged hour. Expect the pulse of a true live night: the immediacy of discovery, the electric silence before a punchline, and the thrill of riffs that exist only once. Jim’s comedy leans into the everyday with a sly, disarming warmth; he has the knack for finding the pressure points of modern life and then tapping them with rhythm, surprise, and a touch of mischief. In Jim revient, he returns with new stories, new angles, and a livewire presence that thrives in the closeness of Le Boui-Boui.

Current momentum and a new chapter on stage

Over the past months, Jim has been in creative overdrive—refining ideas in late-night club slots, collecting reactions, and sculpting the kind of bits that only come from meeting audiences face-to-face. He has peppered his socials with short-form snapshots of work-in-progress moments, sketch-styled slices like Le colis jamais livré, L’ami qui sait tout, and Pédaler sans lumière, little windows into the themes now expanded in Jim revient. What we love, as a venue, is how he uses crowd energy as part of the writing process: he listens, pivots, and shapes the rhythm of a joke in real time. That responsiveness is front and center here. The show taps into the contradictions of city living, the sometimes absurd choreography of friendship and dating, and the oddball rituals that we pretend are normal. There’s a playful tension throughout—between confidence and doubt, speed and patience—and Jim works it like a musician, building call-and-response sequences with the room. If you’ve followed his recent club appearances, you’ll recognize the DNA of those moments, now leveled up into a cohesive, personal, and decidedly present-tense hour designed for our intimate Le Boui-Boui space.

Content-wise, Jim revient is a guided tour of the modern mind at 200 km/h, dotted with set pieces that already feel like instant crowd favorites. Listen for sketches such as Lyon-Part-Dieu à 18h03, where transit timing becomes an epic of micro-frustrations; Le serveur qui tutoie tout le monde, a sly portrait of casual overfamiliarity; and Mot de passe trop fort, a spiraling ode to our security paranoia. He turns up the volume on family and nostalgia in Message vocal de maman, jogs through the rituals of self-improvement with Mon premier footing sur les quais, and dissects cinephile identity in Le cinéma en VO vs VF. Between these anchors, Jim keeps plenty of room for spontaneity: quick exchanges with the front row, local nods to life in Lyon, and those delicious asides that surface when the audience’s laughter writes a new path. The result is a night that feels handcrafted for Le Boui-Boui—close, fast, and unfiltered—where the timing breathes with the room and every seat has the best seat. With Jim revient, we’re hosting not just a comeback but a snapshot of a comedian in motion, building something new with and for the people right in front of him.