Yvain Dans Pas Courageux - Le Boui-boui, Lyon

Yvain brings Pas Courageux to the intimate stage of Le Boui-Boui

At Le Boui-Boui, we are delighted to welcome Yvain with his sharp and tender one-man show Pas Courageux, a set that fits perfectly with our room’s close-up, heartbeat-with-the-comedian atmosphere. From the very first beat, he turns everyday anxieties into comic engines, inviting the audience to recognize their own inner wobble and laugh at it out loud. In our house, this kind of proximity matters: you see the darting glances, the quicksilver timing, the raised eyebrow that detonates a punchline. Pas Courageux thrives on that intimacy. Expect quick pivots between razor-edged observations and confessional storytelling, with recurring bits we love to spot from the wings—moments we affectionately nickname “Le Supermarché Hanté,” “Mode Avion Émotionnel,” and “Le Dernier Métro de Minuit,” because they capture the spirit of the show: misadventure in familiar places, fear wearing a comic mask, and courage that turns up fashionably late. Yvain’s cadence rides the room’s laughter, building crescendos that feel handcrafted for a venue like ours, where the front row is almost a conversation and the back row hears every whisper as if it were meant for them alone.

Current momentum, fresh material, and the live-wire feel of a club set

Right now, Yvain is in a period of sparkling momentum, and Pas Courageux is the centerpiece of that creative run. You can tell: the show breathes. It is the kind of hour that grows sharper from night to night, with new tags and callbacks revealing themselves as he tests the tensile strength of a joke against real-time reactions. We see it from the stage door: how a riff born on a Thursday becomes a pillar by Saturday. Our audiences love these living, evolving sets, especially when a comedian leans into crowd energy without losing narrative thread. In recent appearances at club-length formats, Yvain has been polishing compact, high-hit-rate sequences—snappy, scene-like sketches embedded inside the hour—that our team has come to recognize by their internal nicknames: “Message Vocal de 2 Minutes,” a blissful spiral of overthinking; “Héros du Dimanche,” a portrait of bravery with training wheels; and “Lâche mais lucide,” a self-roast that keeps boomeranging back as a running gag. Even within a single performance, he resets the stakes, then escalates, weaving these set pieces into a longer arc about the awkward alchemy of fear becoming farce.

Le Boui-Boui is built for this kind of comic storytelling. The sightlines are crisp, the stage is within arm’s reach, and the room’s warm acoustics catch quiet confessions as surely as punchy tags. Our regulars know how a hush can carry power here—how the pause before a kicker can feel like a collective intake of breath. Pas Courageux plays that spectrum beautifully: one moment Yvain is anatomizing a half-second of social panic, the next he’s riffing with a table that just recognized itself in the bit. Our crew loves the clockwork of the set—how an early aside suddenly pays off after forty minutes; how a throwaway line blooms into a final cascade. If you’re looking for a night where the performer and the room conspire to make courage out of laughter, this is it. Come discover why Pas Courageux has become a word-of-mouth favorite on our stage, and why Yvain’s craft—alive, agile, and gloriously human—feels tailor-made for the living room spirit of Le Boui-Boui.