Yvain Dans Pas Courageux - Le Boui-boui, Lyon

Yvain dans pas courageux at Le Boui-Boui

At Le Boui-Boui, we relish the moments when a comedian takes our intimate stage and turns proximity into pure electricity. That’s precisely what Yvain brings with pas courageux: a deft, disarming exploration of the little terrors that govern everyday life, delivered with a warm grin and razor-sharp timing. Our room is built for confession and connection, and Yvain leans into that atmosphere, shaping pauses and punchlines to the heartbeat of the crowd just a few steps away. The premise is simple yet fertile: what if the path of least resistance is the funniest road of all? From the first beat, Yvain frames courage not as a virtue to proclaim, but as a moving target we negotiate with ourselves. In this space, whispered doubts become rallying cries, and hesitation becomes a shared language that unites the audience in laughter. The result is a set that feels handcrafted for Le Boui-Boui’s convivial layout—resourceful, nimble, and constantly in dialogue with the audience’s reactions.

What unfolds on our stage

pas courageux blossoms here in sequences that glide between storytelling and quick-fire bits, the kind of shape-shifting our room loves. Yvain sketches out miniature epics of avoidance and almost-heroics, weaving recurring callbacks into the fabric of the night. Expect crowd-favorite vignettes with cheeky titles like “L’option fuite,” “Le message vocal de maman,” “Le date fantôme,” “Retour chez le dentiste,” and “Le voisin du dessus,” each a tiny world where the safest choice becomes the funniest possible outcome. He toys with the idea of bravery as admin, the heroism of doing nothing, and the comfort of postponing decisions until tomorrow—material that lands especially well when you can see every raised eyebrow and conspiratorial smile up close. On our stage, Yvain’s pacing is agile: he builds tension, abandons it for a sharper laugh, then circles back with a turnaround you don’t see coming. The show’s living core is the interplay with the room, and at Le Boui-Boui that interplay feels almost orchestral. You’ll notice how the collective gasp becomes part of the punchline, how the silence before a tag rings louder than any rimshot, and how Yvain slips into and out of bits with the ease of a friend confiding in friends.

As a comedy house, we also love seeing an artist’s present-tense momentum, and Yvain arrives with that spark. pas courageux is not just a fixed hour—it’s a workshop in courage management, continually refreshed with new fragments and cheeky epilogues. In recent weeks, he’s been teasing fresh micro-stories that dovetail into the show’s spine, pieces he labels “En cas d’incendie: je réfléchis,” “Permission de paniquer,” and “Le héros de personne,” all tailored to the intimacy and responsiveness of Le Boui-Boui. You can feel the craft in the arrangement: crisp premises, precise wording, and those playful detours where the audience’s own confessions fuel the next surprise. We’ve watched Yvain test a line, reframe it, then land it with a cleaner angle the very next night; that iterative energy is why pas courageux thrives here. Expect a night where the setlist breathes—where a whispered aside might become tonight’s running joke, where a throwaway observation might earn a triumphant callback twenty minutes later. For us, this is the essence of live comedy at Le Boui-Boui: an artist fully present, a room fully engaged, and a shared adventure through the art of almost doing the brave thing.