Yvain Dans Pas Courageux - Le Boui-boui, Lyon

Le Boui-Boui welcomes Yvain with Pas courageux

At Le Boui-Boui, we thrive on the electricity that only an intimate room can generate, and that is precisely why we are thrilled to host Yvain with his show Pas courageux. Our stage is built for quick wit, nimble storytelling, and the kind of eye-to-eye complicity that comedians rarely experience in larger venues. Yvain’s voice lands in that sweet spot: disarmingly honest, self-deprecating, and irresistibly playful as he pokes at the tiny tremors of everyday life—procrastination, awkward encounters, sudden rushes of panic, and those “do it tomorrow” decisions that somehow become a way of being. In Pas courageux, he leans into the comic tension between what we intend to do and what we actually do, crafting a rhythm of confession and comeback that resonates powerfully in our room. The show breathes with the audience—our tight acoustics amplify the ripple of laughter, our low stage encourages improvised asides, and every seat is close enough to catch a raised eyebrow or a micro-beat of silence. This is stand-up where timing is everything, and the experience is alive, unrepeatable, and unmistakably Le Boui-Boui.

An artist in full flight: new bits, new energy, same fearless honesty

Yvain arrives in Lyon at a creative high, sharpening Pas courageux with fresh segments he has been honing in clubs and late-night slots, including our own testing grounds for new material. He has been playing with a series of tightly drawn vignettes that fans have embraced in recent sets—names like La Peur du téléphone, Le Visio au boulot, Première rencontre avec les beaux-parents, and L’Entretien d’embauche sous pression have circulated in clips and word-of-mouth, each one rooted in a recognizable social reflex: avoidance. His writing has grown leaner and more musical; callbacks thread through the hour, and the characters appear, vanish, and reappear as if we’re watching a comic novel unfold in real time. There is a physical edge to his delivery too: small tics that become outsized caricatures, a slouch that turns into a full scene partner, and a whisper that suddenly detonates into the punchline. Underneath the craft runs a gentle philosophy—Pas courageux doesn’t celebrate fear so much as it maps it, turning hesitation into a playground. When he jumps into sequences like Le Coup de fil à maman or Le Médecin généraliste, the crowd tends to recognize themselves before he says it out loud, and that recognition is where the laugh catches fire.

Hosting Yvain at Le Boui-Boui means giving this material the conditions it deserves: a compact, attentive audience, minimal distance between performer and listener, and a team attuned to the beat-by-beat choreography of a great stand-up hour. We set the stage with crisp lighting that supports his quick pivots, and we keep the room nimble so that improvised exchanges can breathe—because Yvain loves to listen as much as he speaks. Expect spontaneous riffs that may nod to Lyon’s daily realities—la montée that steals your breath, the late metro sprint, the afterwork that morphs into a saga—and expect our crowd to answer back with the warmth and curiosity that define our venue. Recent favorites in his live arsenal, like Inventaire des petites peurs and Héros du dimanche, tend to surface across performances, not as fixed checkpoints but as evolving conversation pieces that adapt to the moment. That is the essence of Pas courageux at Le Boui-Boui: a living, laughing document of how we dodge, delay, and eventually dare. We are proud to offer the setting where every hesitation turns into a shared spark—and where Yvain’s latest work, restless and joyful, finds its perfect echo.