Gustave Parking - De Mieux En Mieux Pareil

Gustave Parking at Espace Gerson: De mieux en mieux pareil

At Espace Gerson, we are delighted to welcome the irrepressible Gustave Parking with De mieux en mieux pareil, a poetic and delightfully offbeat evening that embodies everything we cherish about live comedy: proximity, creativity, and the thrill of a room discovering something new together. Our intimate stage in Vieux Lyon is perfectly suited to his unique blend of visual gags, wordplay, and crafty, eco-minded props that turn the everyday into a playground. Expect the joy of surprise to govern the night: cardboard becomes orchestra, a hat turns into a troupe of characters, and a single line becomes a cascade of puns. De mieux en mieux pareil is a living show—fluid, curious, and gleefully human—where audience reactions steer the tempo and where the boundary between performer and room is kept elastic. This is comedy you can feel in the air: the split-second silences before an avalanche of laughter, the contagion of giggles spreading row by row, and the sight of Gustave Parking juggling ideas as deftly as he juggles objects.

An artist’s current momentum, up close

As a venue dedicated to the art of laughter, we’ve watched Gustave Parking’s current momentum with admiration. De mieux en mieux pareil continues to evolve on the road, each stop adding an extra turn of the screw: fresh improvisations, topical riffs about everyday ecology and resourcefulness, and newly honed visual sequences that reward careful watching. His presence remains anchored by a career that has bridged TV variety, festival acclaim, and grassroots theatre, from television showcases like Le Plus Grand Cabaret du Monde to the enduring festival circuit where audiences rediscover the joy of handcrafted comedy. In recent seasons he has brought his signature inventiveness to packed houses at major comedy gatherings, and online audiences have embraced his short-form snippets where his bricolage humor thrives. Fans often speak of favorite “mini-acts” by their own nicknames—the rebellious umbrella, the bottomless suitcase, the paper-tape orchestra—because his bits tend to become shared memories as much as sketches. That’s the special alchemy he achieves: visual imagination that remains playful and precise, with a rhythm that invites everyone to lean in.

Hosting this date at Espace Gerson means giving De mieux en mieux pareil the right kind of frame: close enough for a raised eyebrow to become a punchline, spacious enough for the contraptions and pratfalls to bloom, and warm enough for audience and artist to trade energy all night long. Our room’s cabaret-style intimacy suits Gustave Parking’s artistry, which lives in the spark between a quick gesture and a collective gasp. Whether you’ve followed him for decades or you’re discovering him here, this performance highlights an ongoing artistic chapter—agile, generous, and tuned to the present moment. The show’s palette shifts from mischievous pantomime to torrents of linguistic acrobatics, from little miracles of recycling to comedic chain reactions where one object cues ten ideas. We love that spirit at Espace Gerson: comedy that feels hand-made and humane, that leaves you hearing echoes of laughter on the walk home, and that makes you look at your own pocketful of everyday things as if they might, at any moment, burst into theater.