Yvain Dans Pas Courageux - Le Boui-boui, Lyon

Le Boui-Boui welcomes Yvain in Pas courageux

Here at Le Boui-Boui, we love when a performer turns our intimate stage into a living room, and that is exactly what Yvain achieves with Pas courageux. In our snug, close-up setting, each glance, pause, and under-the-breath aside lands with extra resonance, letting his self-deprecating wit and quicksilver timing bloom. Pas courageux is built around a relatable tension—the distance between the brave version of ourselves we picture and the hesitant version we live—and Yvain mines that gap with playful precision. He leans into everyday hazards and tiny embarrassments, invites the audience to recognize themselves, and then escalates those recognitions into mischievous chains of callbacks. The result feels conversational yet meticulously engineered: sharp observational beats, character switches that snap into focus under our lights, and nimble moments of crowd interplay that make each performance unique to the room. It’s the sort of hour that rewards proximity; from the first row to the back banquette, you can hear the mechanics of a punch turn, watch a premise tighten, and feel the shared delight when a bold tag sticks.

Right now: the pulse of Yvain’s comedy

Hosting this new chapter of Yvain’s stand-up at Le Boui-Boui lets us share his current artistic momentum at the scale where comedy breathes best. The material in Pas courageux captures the anxieties and small negotiations of modern life—social pressure, digital habits, the awkward heroics of daily tasks—and threads them into stories that escalate with rhythmic control. If you follow contemporary French stand-up through shows like Jamel Comedy Club, Le Paname Comedy Club on Canal+, or the recent wave spotlighted by Drôle, you’ll recognize the blend of personal narrative, sharp observation, and playful vulnerability that Yvain wields so well. He keeps the audience close to the process, toggling from throwaway asides to crafted payoffs, and using our room’s immediacy to stretch, trim, and crystallize ideas in real time. That responsiveness is part of his present-day signature: a willingness to let a whisper carry as far as a shout, to invite a front-row reaction into the fabric of the bit, and to circle back later with a callback that retrofits the whole path we’ve taken together. For us as a venue, it’s thrilling to host an artist leaning into this precise, confessional energy; you feel a set become a story, and a story become a shared secret for the night.