Yvain Dans Pas Courageux - Le Boui-boui, Lyon

At Le Boui-Boui, Yvain unleashes Pas courageux

We are delighted to welcome Yvain to the intimate stage of Le Boui-Boui with his new hour, Pas courageux. Our room is built for this kind of comedy: low ceilings, close quarters, and the immediate crackle that happens when a sharp observer meets an audience at arm’s length. Yvain thrives in that proximity. The title hints at it—he mines the little tremors of everyday life, the hesitations and tiny panics that everyone recognizes but rarely admits. In our space, those confessions turn into laughter that bounces from brick to brick, whether he’s reliving the stress of answering the phone, bargaining with his own procrastination, or trying to seem composed in front of a security guard, a date, or a family gathering that spirals out of control. The result is both quick-witted and surprisingly warm, the kind of performance that feels written in the moment even as it lands with the precision of a seasoned craftsman.

Yvain now: a fresh hour and a sharpened voice

As a venue devoted to discovering and championing new voices, we’ve been following Yvain’s momentum closely. This season he has honed Pas courageux through short sets and work-in-progress nights, carving out a voice that is more candid, more rhythmically playful, and more finely tuned to audience energy than ever. If you follow contemporary francophone stand-up through Jamel Comedy Club, Paname Comedy Club on Comédie+, Montreux Comedy, or Les Open du Rire on Rire & Chansons, you’ll recognize the modern, conversational edge in his writing: clean premises, swift turns, and an ear for the exact word that tilts a scene from awkward to absurd. What sets him apart at Le Boui-Boui is how fluently he blends that pace with a gentle self-mockery; he doesn’t posture as the bravest in the room so much as the most honest about being a little afraid. That honesty gives the show its shape—tackling social anxiety, decision fatigue, and the comic chaos of group chats and bureaucratic odysseys—with a throughline that builds from grin to grin into laughing out loud.

Our stage magnifies those details. With the audience practically in the spotlight, Yvain’s act-outs take on a life of their own—an eyebrow becomes a punchline, a pause becomes a reveal. Expect an hour of tightly woven bits, nimble callbacks, and the kind of crowd awareness that makes every performance feel singular to the night. The writing in Pas courageux is unabashedly observational: a survival guide to small embarrassments, a field report from the front lines of text-message etiquette, and a playful anatomy of fear that never dips into cynicism. Because the room is so intimate, moments of improvisation—an aside about a ringtone, a glance at two friends laughing for different reasons—bloom into mini-sketches without breaking the flow. We keep the sound crisp and the lights focused so the laughs roll cleanly, and we leave enough breathing room for those delicious seconds when silence becomes suspense. For anyone who loves stand-up that is smart without being smug, and personal without being confessional, Pas courageux at Le Boui-Boui is the perfect meeting of artist and space.