Yvain Dans Pas Courageux - Le Boui-boui, Lyon

Yvain brings Pas courageux to Le Boui-Boui

At Le Boui-Boui, we love giving our audience the thrill of seeing a sharp comic at close range, and that is exactly why we are welcoming Yvain with his show Pas courageux. From the stage of our intimate room in the heart of Lyon, Yvain turns the small anxieties of everyday life into a cascade of punchlines, playing with hesitation, awkward timing, and the split-second decisions we overthink. The spirit of Pas courageux blossoms in a space like ours, where every eyebrow raise, pause, and whispered aside lands just a few feet from the crowd. The result is a living conversation rather than a distant monologue: a night in which the comic’s self-deprecation mirrors the audience’s own inner monologues, and where the room’s warmth encourages spontaneous detours, call-backs tailored to the public, and a joyful sense of complicity unique to Le Boui-Boui.

Yvain’s current momentum and what’s new on stage

What excites us most as a venue is Yvain’s present creative momentum. He has been honing fresh material with the brisk cadence of a writer-performer who observes everything: phones that conspire against us, social etiquette under pressure, the brave face we put on when we’d rather retreat. In rehearsals and recent try-outs, he’s been stitching new mini-bits into Pas courageux, weaving quick-fire sequences like Mode Avion, Le Message Vocal de Deux Minutes, Notifications Fantômes, and Courage, Fuyons into the show’s core themes of doubt and delayed bravery. These short, memorable pieces act like signposts through a larger narrative: the comic as the reluctant hero, fumbling toward adulthood while the universe keeps nudging him off script. As Le Boui-Boui audiences know, that mix of crafted writing and agile improvisation is our sweet spot, and Yvain thrives in it—speeding up, slowing down, bantering, then snapping back into his next joke as though the room itself were part of the punchline.

During his run with us, expect the signature Yvain blend of candid confession and tight, rhythmical punch writing, delivered with a stage presence that makes every seat feel like the front row. Pas courageux has a living setlist that adapts to the night, and the recent additions have a wonderfully mischievous edge: Le Voisin du Dessus dives into urban cohabitation; Le Rendez-vous chez le Dentiste toys with fear and avoidance; Numéro Masqué plays with modern paranoia; and Mot de Passe Oublié captures the boiling point between technology and patience. In the close quarters of Le Boui-Boui, those bits ignite a chain reaction of laughter that rolls from one table to the next, amplified by audience interactions that Yvain orchestrates with care—never hostile, always generous, and constantly surprising. We cherish artists who treat the stage as a laboratory and the audience as collaborators; with Pas courageux, Yvain does exactly that, refining his timing night after night while protecting the heart of the show: a playful admission that caution, procrastination, and tiny fears can be wildly funny when examined under the warm lights of Le Boui-Boui.