Yvain Dans Pas Courageux - Le Boui-boui, Lyon

Le Boui-Boui welcomes Yvain in Pas courageux

At Le Boui-Boui, we celebrate artists who carve out their voice in a room built for intimacy, timing, and the thrill of live discovery. That is precisely why we are delighted to host Yvain with his new hour Pas courageux, a stand-up experience designed to thrive in a close, generous space like ours. The show leans into the everyday heroics of not quite feeling brave enough, reframing hesitation, doubt, and social misfires as a rich source of laughter and connection. From the moment the lights go down, Yvain’s conversational energy creates genuine proximity with the first row and the back row alike, letting the smallest details—a missed bus, a misread text, a sudden silence—bloom into stories that feel uncomfortably true and irresistibly funny. Our stage is compact by design, and that scale heightens Yvain’s rhythmic control: no distance between idea and punchline, no barrier between performer and audience, just the fragile courage of the present moment turning into shared applause.

What audiences can expect from Pas courageux

Pas courageux is a study in precision and surprise. Yvain’s writing is carefully layered, but he delivers it with the loose ease of a conversation you’re sure you’ve had before, just not this cleverly. The set pivots between brisk observational beats and deeper, confessional detours, always circling back to the paradox of wanting to be daring while simultaneously negotiating with our own caution. If you follow contemporary French comedy and keep up with émissions like Quotidien, Clique, Le Late avec Alain Chabat, or even podcast conversations such as Un Bon Moment, you’ll recognize the modern, diaristic tone that this show embraces—sharp, self-aware, and culturally tuned. In our room, that tone becomes tactile: a raised eyebrow lands as loudly as a tag, a quiet pause reads like a punchline. Yvain is generous with crowd interplay without ever derailing the through-line, and the result is a set that feels both meticulously built and happily alive, different at each performance and yet immaculately paced from start to final callback.

As a venue that champions emerging voices alongside seasoned acts, we’ve watched Yvain’s momentum build with unmistakable clarity. Pas courageux is not only a title—it’s an artistic compass that has guided his recent writing sessions and stage testing, and the new material he brings to Le Boui-Boui captures a moment when vulnerability is a superpower. The current buzz around the show mirrors what we see night after night: audiences leaning in, recognizing their own daily negotiations with fear and comfort, and laughing at the funny, tender logic of surviving modern life. Yvain crafts sequences that compress the chaos of a week into five crystalline minutes, then slows down to explore a single awkward smile as if it were a universe. Our technical team keeps the design intentionally spare—clean lights, crisp sound—so the language, silences, and reactions do the heavy lifting. For us, hosting Pas courageux is about offering a space where nuance reads, wordplay breathes, and new bits can debut before becoming the moments people quote on the way home. If your idea of a perfect night out is discovering a voice mid-flight, this is the show to catch at Le Boui-Boui.