Yvain Dans Pas Courageux - Le Boui-boui, Lyon

Le Boui-Boui welcomes Yvain in Pas courageux

At Le Boui-Boui, we love artists who thrive on proximity, and Yvain’s Pas courageux is designed for exactly that. Our intimate room in Lyon encourages whisper-close timing, quicksilver crowd interaction, and genuine eye contact—all things this sharp writer-performer leans into with relish. From the moment he slips onto our stage, Yvain plays with the delightful contradiction at the heart of Pas courageux: big laughs mined from small fears, bravado offset by self-mockery, and razor-edged observations softened by charm. The show’s rhythm suits our space: brisk, confessional, and mischievously precise. You’ll see him test a premise on the left side of the room, tag it on the right, and then flip it in the center with a turn of phrase that ricochets off the back wall. His physicality is nimble rather than broad, and our close quarters mean every raised eyebrow, every half-swallowed aside, and every conspiratorial grin lands with amplified warmth. It’s stand-up that feels hand-crafted in real time for the audience in front of him, and for us as a venue, that’s the sweet spot.

Pas courageux has a clean, unpretentious frame—fear and hesitation as universal fuel—yet it’s packed with playful detours and mini-sagas. In recent sets, Yvain has been flirting with recurring bits that our audiences immediately recognize, such as Rendez-vous chez le banquier, Le Métro à 8h02, Plan canicule, and SMS de Maman, quick portraits that he threads together with assured call-backs. There’s also the gleefully exasperated Mode Avion Social, and a crowd-pleasing everyday epic, Héros du Super U, that lets him test the edges of “heroism” when all you wanted was to buy yogurt. What makes these pieces sing in our room is his willingness to let a silence breathe just long enough for a shared grin to bloom, then spike it with a tag that reframes the whole moment. Our tech team keeps the lighting crisp and the sound intimate so his softer confessions land as strongly as his punchlines. We’ve seen him pivot from a clean set-up to a whip-smart ad-lib and back into a polished closer without a seam showing, and the audience rides that wave with him, shoulder to shoulder.

Fresh momentum for Yvain at Le Boui-Boui

From our vantage point, Yvain arrives with real momentum. He’s been energizing Lyon nights with tight, contemporary writing and an instinct for how to keep a room leaning forward. Between runs of Pas courageux here at Le Boui-Boui, he has continued to shape new beats—listen for Service Après-Vente de la Peur and La Sieste d’Urgence slipping into the set, proof that he’s refining, not just repeating. The material has the lived-in feel of stories told to real people, not to an abstract camera; that’s why it resonates in our brick-lined space. We program this show because we believe in its craftsmanship: the careful escalations, the clean narrative loops, the punchlines that reward attention without ever feeling inside-baseball. If you’ve been following his short stage clips, you’ll notice how the fragments cohere here into something more cinematic, with callbacks linking early jitters to late payoffs. And if this is your first time seeing Yvain, Pas courageux at Le Boui-Boui is the best entry point: a taut hour where the stakes stay personal, the laughter feels communal, and the performer never hides behind noise. It’s the pleasure of watching a comic in the pocket—close enough to feel the spark, confident enough to let the room breathe, and restless enough to keep bringing in fresh material.