Jim Revient - Le Boui-boui (lyon)

Le Boui-Boui welcomes Jim revient

At Le Boui-Boui in Lyon, we love nothing more than seeing an artist come back sharper, braver, and more eager to meet the crowd up close—and that is exactly the spirit of Jim revient. Our stage is built for that unmistakable live-electric feeling: no distance, no filters, just a room tuned for timing, silence, and laughter. Jim’s return arrives as stand-up keeps reshaping itself in France, with audiences bingeing bite-size comedy and following the energy of recent shows like LOL: Qui rit, sort!, Quotidien, Clique, and the Montreux Comedy Festival highlights online. In this climate, Jim revient is both a homecoming and a fresh launchpad: new ideas, new rhythms, and the kind of eye-to-eye connection only our compact room can offer. If you’ve seen Jim here before, you’ll feel the glow of recognition; if you’re discovering him now, you’ll catch him in the best possible conditions—where every pause, punchline, and afterthought is audible and contagious.

What to expect on stage at Le Boui-Boui

Jim revient is a living, breathing hour that leans into presence: the small confessions, the observational jabs, and that delicious moment when a story veers somewhere unexpected and the whole room leans in together. From the first minutes, Jim uses Le Boui-Boui’s intimate acoustics to play with silence and speed—stretching a glance, detonating a quick aside, testing a line with the front row and then lifting it to the back wall. Expect crowd work that stays playful and kind, the occasional callback that ties two distant ideas with a wink, and a structure that glides from quick-fire premises to a longer, cathartic closer. As a venue, we’ve watched his new material evolve night after night: fresher cadences, tighter tags, and a renewed appetite for that classic stand-up alchemy—turning the everyday into the extraordinary. Jim revient isn’t a museum piece; it’s an actively evolving set shaped by the room, the audience, and the artist’s appetite to go a beat further.

Artistically, Jim has been on the move—workshopping in clubs, refining ideas during late-night slots, and sharing compact moments of his voice with the digital audience that now tailors so much of the conversation around comedy. The result is a set with a clear spine and room to breathe, ready to catch the instinct of the night. You can feel the current of recent French comedy energizing the work: the quick-hit culture that surrounds shows such as LOL: Qui rit, sort! and the conversational, topical pulse that keeps viewers glued to programs like Quotidien and Clique. Jim revient channels that momentum without losing what makes our space special: the warmth, the mischief, and the sense that you’re not just watching jokes—you’re in them, part of the delicate timing that makes a room erupt. We’re thrilled to host this new chapter at Le Boui-Boui, where a return is never a repeat and every seat is the best seat for catching an artist in full creative stride.