Yvain Dans Pas Courageux - Le Boui-boui, Lyon

Le Boui-Boui welcomes Yvain with Pas courageux

At Le Boui-Boui, we love nights when the room crackles with anticipation, and that’s exactly the atmosphere Yvain brings with Pas courageux. Our intimate stage thrives on comedians who can turn tiny, everyday hesitations into big, rolling laughter, and Yvain’s current artistic momentum is tailor-made for this space. Pas courageux is the kind of hour that feels both new and lived-in: nimble, personal, and grounded in the small fears we all carry around. In recent months, the comic has sharpened his voice across club sets and digital clips, leaning into sharp, compact vignettes that fans have already started to namecheck after shows—pieces like “Ascenseur Social,” “Mode Avion,” and “Petit Courage, Grand Café.” As a venue that champions agile, contemporary stand-up, we’re delighted to host a performer who can toggle from quick-fire lines to longer stories without breaking the tension. Expect the kind of laughter that bounces off our brick walls and the kind of recognition that keeps audiences leaning forward, ready for the next confession, the next twist, the next moment where being “not so brave” becomes uproariously, cathartically funny.

Inside the hour: how Yvain expands Pas courageux on our stage

Part of the thrill of experiencing Yvain at Le Boui-Boui is watching how he uses the room’s closeness to escalate a premise. Pas courageux blossoms here: a handful of words, a glance toward the front row, and suddenly we’re all implicated in his comic experiments about caution, avoidance, and the strange bravery required to live among other people. The hour builds in elegant waves—clean setups, elastic callbacks, and the kind of crowd conversation that never feels like detour, always like discovery. He threads together tightly observed bits like “Porte Blindée,” “Mot de Passe,” and “Le Héros du Supermarché,” sketch titles that capture his range from razor-wire one-liners to mini-stories with cinematic detail. Audiences hear themselves in his beats about overthinking doorbells, resenting group chats, and drafting exit strategies for small talk; we see the micro-panics and micro-victories of everyday life reframed as high-stakes theater. When a room is as intimate as ours, timing is king; Yvain plays silence like a snare drum, then snaps the laugh right where you least expect it. It’s a craft-forward hour, but it never feels labored—just lived, tested, and thrillingly present.

As a home for emerging voices and seasoned pros alike, Le Boui-Boui is proud to present an artist whose current creative cycle feels especially vibrant. Yvain has been building Pas courageux with the discipline of a writer and the looseness of a club comic, using short-form videos to road-test turns of phrase and polishing transitions in late-night sets. That process shows: the hour is calibrated but never stiff, and our audiences have been quick to connect with the anxious humor and sly optimism that power it. On any given night, he may premiere brand-new chunks with working titles like “Notification Fantôme,” “Trop Poli pour Vrai,” or “Code PIN,” slipped into the flow of the show so seamlessly that you’ll only realize later you just heard something freshly minted. Our room’s up-close acoustics and sightlines let you catch every eyebrow raise and under-the-breath punch, and our team keeps things crisp so the rhythm never drops. If you’re drawn to comedy that balances confession with craft—and if you want to witness an artist’s latest evolution in the environment it was built for—Pas courageux at Le Boui-Boui is where that story unfolds, one precise laugh at a time.