Jim Revient - Le Boui-boui (lyon)

Jim revient at Le Boui-Boui: a close-up night made for discovery and return

From our intimate stage at Le Boui-Boui, we are thrilled to welcome Jim with his new show, Jim revient. Our room is built for this kind of night: close sightlines, a warm, brick-lined ambience, and the kind of concentrated attention that lets a performer shape ideas in the moment. Jim is arriving to us at a dynamic point in his artistic cycle, returning with fresh material honed in front of real audiences and sharpened by months of writing and short-form try-outs. What we love about hosting him here is the immediate, living exchange: the laughs come fast, but so do the pauses, the looks, and the small pivots that build an hour into a story. At Le Boui-Boui, every seat is near the stage, so Jim’s timing, glances, and callbacks land with the kind of precision that’s hard to reproduce in larger rooms. Jim revient is a promise of proximity: the performer’s pulse, the room’s breath, and the alchemy that only happens when you are a few meters from the spark.

Because we see artists up close, we also see their current momentum, and Jim’s is unmistakable. His recent work circles around everyday pressure points—digital overload, the delicate chaos of friendships, and the tiny rituals that keep city life stitched together—and turns them into generous, quick-fire sequences that reward the attentive listener. Over the past months, he has been testing segments in compact sets and polishing transitions that now thread into a confident narrative spine. You can expect riffs that start as familiar observations and mutate into playful thought experiments, as he toys with rhythm and lets an occasional silence carry a sharper punchline. We have watched him adjust beats to the room, swapping an aside for a movement or toggling tone to invite the crowd into the joke rather than delivering it at them. Jim revient captures that evolution: a performer collecting fragments, adding structure, and stepping into Le Boui-Boui with an hour that feels lived-in yet alive, ready for the elasticity that our space encourages. For our audience, this is the right moment to catch him—he is both precise and exploratory, generous with off-the-cuff detours that make each performance unique.

Inside the night: what Jim brings to Le Boui-Boui right now

As a venue, we are careful to present artists when their present-tense energy is undeniable, and Jim’s current chapter fits perfectly. His set is lean on filler and rich in perspective shifts: he’ll launch a premise at conversational speed, then twist it with a lateral leap that reframes everything you thought he meant. Jim revient is constructed to thrive in a room like ours, where the laughter is a real-time instrument. The hour moves between brisk stand-up and more theatrical beats—quick changes in posture, a sudden hush that turns the audience into conspirators, and a knack for tagging a joke with one last, understated line that ripples through the seats. We’ve seen how our crowd responds when an artist blends sharp writing with the playful vulnerability of testing edges, and that’s exactly the chemistry Jim is bringing. If you have been following his recent activity, you know he has been active on stage and online, building momentum with compact showcases, tight clips that capture a single idea at its most surprising, and extended club slots that preview this longer form. Jim revient gathers that work into a full experience designed for the scale and sensitivity of Le Boui-Boui. Arrive ready to lean in; the show rewards attention with detail, rhythm, and a welcome sense that what’s happening tonight could only happen here.