Yvain Dans Pas Courageux - Le Boui-boui, Lyon

Le Boui-Boui welcomes Yvain in Pas Courageux

At Le Boui-Boui, we keep our room close, warm, and ready for the kind of comedy that breathes with the audience, and that is exactly why Yvain brings Pas Courageux to our stage. From the first spotlight cue to the last laugh, our team designs an atmosphere where confessions, contradictions, and tiny acts of everyday bravery can turn into a rolling wave of punchlines. Pas Courageux is not a show that shouts from a distance; it leans in, trading the grand gesture for the intimate beat, the whispered truth, and the quick, sly glance that only a front-row in Lyon can catch. We’ve watched Yvain refine this new hour with a craftsman’s patience, shaping stories that orbit fear, hesitation, and the clumsy ways we try to look bold. In our room, the joke is not just heard—it’s felt, ricocheting off the brick, the low ceiling, and the shared complicity that makes live comedy irresistible.

Onstage at Le Boui-Boui: craft, rhythm, and proximity

As a comedian, Yvain is in a fertile moment, and Pas Courageux captures that momentum. He arrives at Le Boui-Boui with the calm precision of someone who knows where the laugh lives, and the curiosity of a writer still chasing the next turn of phrase. The set strips things back: a mic, a stool, a mind dissecting the gap between who we pretend to be and who we are when the lights are off. During rehearsal runs, we’ve seen the hour gain muscle and music—faster pivots, patient silences, and a physicality that turns a single eyebrow raise into a room-wide punchline. Around here, a few bits have earned unofficial nicknames among our crew: “La Chaise Qui Grince,” where a tiny squeak becomes a full-blown social spiral; “Le Voisin de Palier,” a portrait of forced politeness on the landing; and “Mode Avion,” a love letter to switching off and the panics it reveals. These are not spoilers so much as signals of the textures you’ll meet—observational, confessional, and playfully self-mocking, the kind of writing that rewards attention and proximity. Yvain’s current groove is all about live discovery, and our stage gives him the freedom to stretch, sharpen, and surprise without losing the pulse of the crowd.

For us at Le Boui-Boui, hosting Pas Courageux is also about the way a room can sculpt a performance. Our technical team keeps the light warm and the audio crisp, letting Yvain ride dynamics from a whisper to a roar without ever losing clarity. We keep transitions tight so the show flows, and we tune the seating plan to preserve the shared eye-line that makes crowd work electric—because when Yvain plays off a glance or a muttered comeback from the second row, the ripple effect is the night’s secret engine. This season, we’re dedicating selected evenings to comedians who are actively building new material, and Pas Courageux sits at the heart of that mission: new angles, new beats, a living script that evolves in real time. Expect a pace that breathes—stories that tighten into a snap, then loosen into a riff; callbacks seeded early and harvested late; and the rare pleasure of watching a comic trust an audience enough to take risks. If you love comedy that finds poetry in panic and laughter in hesitation, our little room in Lyon is the right place to catch Yvain now, while Pas Courageux is glowing with the heat of fresh creation and the immediacy that only live performance can deliver.