Yvain Dans Pas Courageux - Le Boui-boui, Lyon

At Le Boui-Boui: No Comment by Malik Mike

From our small, laughter-charged stage at Le Boui-Boui, we love watching comics turn intimacy into electricity, and that is exactly what happens when Malik Mike brings No Comment to our room. The show’s title says a lot about the tone: an expressive, finely tuned blend of silence, gesture, and razor-sharp observation that plays beautifully in a venue where the performer and audience are practically within arm’s reach. Our sightlines and tight acoustics let every eyebrow raise and perfectly timed pause land with maximum impact, so the craft behind his physical phrasing and the bounce of his punchlines both read crystal clear. As hosts, we see how quickly he calibrates the mood—leaning into a look, a breath, a half-sentence—and how that tension-release cadence turns small everyday moments into big collective laughs. No Comment thrives here because Le Boui-Boui is a listening room as much as it is a laughing room, and that closeness amplifies his precision, spontaneity, and mischievous sense of timing.

Malik Mike arrives in Lyon with fresh momentum and a stack of new bits that fans have been passing around in clips and reels. In recent months, he has sharpened compact, rewatchable routines that fit the No Comment spirit while still evolving nightly. Audiences will recognize the energy behind crowd-favorite moments and newer sketches such as Silence Radio, Mode Avion, Le Bureau Open Space, and Rendez-vous Muet—tight pieces that pivot on social codes, modern work rituals, and the comedy of what goes unsaid. We’ve watched him test and elevate these ideas in the kind of close-up setting our venue was built for, where a millisecond pause earns a bigger payoff than a shout. What excites us most is how he threads those set pieces with live improvisation about the room, the front row, the city outside our door, and the tiny frictions of daily life. He doesn’t just perform to the audience at Le Boui-Boui—he performs with them, inviting the room into the choreography of his beats and letting the space itself shape the rhythm.

What to expect on the night

On show night, expect a performance that breathes with the room—Malik Mike will slide from sculpted physical comedy to nimble, off-the-cuff exchanges, punctuating our intimate silence with punchlines that hit before you even realize he has set them up. The flow of No Comment moves like a series of vignettes—tiny urban ballets where a glance becomes a line, a pause becomes a story, and a single prop or chair becomes the setting for something larger. In our configuration at Le Boui-Boui, you feel seated inside the sketch rather than watching from a distance, and that’s exactly where pieces like Ascenseur Social, Timing Parfait, and Bruit de Fond land best. The lighting focuses the eye; the room holds its breath; the laugh arrives in a wave. Come early, settle close, and let the show unfold in the kind of proximity that has made our stage a favorite for comics who craft with detail. No Comment is designed to live in the present tense, and from our vantage point, the present has rarely felt this alive.