Yvain Dans Pas Courageux - Le Boui-boui, Lyon

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

We at Le Boui-Boui are delighted to welcome Yvain with his razor-sharp solo show Pas courageux, a perfect match for our intimate room in the heart of Lyon. From the moment the doors open, our team can feel that special hum that only a genuinely personal comedy hour can generate: the anticipation of small confessions, big laughs, and the electricity of live discovery. Yvain arrives with a crisp, modern voice, a taste for observational details, and a fondness for exposing the tiny cowardices that shape everyday life. In recent months he has been refining a lively set that thrives on proximity—exactly the sort of material that benefits from our close seating, our warm acoustics, and the immediate feedback loop that binds audience and performer. Within Pas courageux he builds a set-list of nimble, self-contained bits that he threads into a larger narrative arc, including crowd-favorite pieces like “Le Courage en Kit,” “Mode Avion Social,” and “Plan Bouchon,” each one taking a familiar situation and pulling it toward a punchline that feels both inevitable and surprising once it lands.

Inside Pas courageux: what our audience will experience at Le Boui-Boui

Our room is designed for immediacy, and Yvain’s craft capitalizes on that closeness. Pas courageux moves with the precision of a conversation that gets funnier the more honest it becomes: posture checks at the office morph into confessions about procrastination; the fear of calling the landlord spirals into an operatic inner monologue; and micro-panics become epic set pieces. He layers callbacks with care, returning to a phrase or a gesture with fresh angles until it snowballs into a release that shakes the room. From our vantage point, we can see how he calibrates tempo and silence—the way a one-second pause yields a ripple of recognition, or how a throwaway aside seeds a later avalanche. Our lights are intentionally warm and tight for this show, keeping the focus on the micro-expressions that are key to his delivery. Expect nimble audience interplay, too: Yvain invites quick check-ins about everyday bravery—a dentist appointment, the unanswered email, the late-night “seen” message—and then refracts those contributions through his neatly-constructed comic lens. By the time he arrives at the knotty heart of Pas courageux, the crowd has become an accomplice, cheering on tiny victories and laughing at the shared impulse to dodge them.

Artistically, Yvain is in a fertile phase, and it shows in the way he keeps slipping in brand-new tags and fresher transitions between his tentpole bits. We’re hearing him road-test crisp additions with working titles like “Cours de Courage Express,” “Check-list des Héros du Dimanche,” and “Le Bouton Snooze Moral,” and he’s been energizing late slots in our programming with compact, high-velocity runs of new material before folding the best moments into Pas courageux. Beyond our stage, his recent clips have circulated widely among local comedy fans, building momentum for this residency and drawing curious first-timers alongside returning regulars who want to hear how the hour evolves from night to night. Le Boui-Boui thrives on that alchemy of risk and refinement, and Yvain leans into it—treating each performance as a living document, open to detours, responsive to the room, and anchored by standout sketches such as “Le Courage en Kit” and “Mode Avion Social.” If you seek the thrill of watching a comedian expand his universe in real time—discovering where the next callback lands or how a half-whisper can flip a narrative—our stage is where it’s happening, with Yvain guiding the ride under the banner of Pas courageux.