Yvain Dans Pas Courageux - Le Boui-boui, Lyon

Yvain brings Pas courageux to Le Boui-Boui

At Le Boui-Boui, we cherish artists who turn the everyday into something delightfully unexpected, and that is exactly what Yvain does with Pas courageux. In our intimate room—built for immediacy, for eye contact, for laughter that spreads like a spark—his material lands with a mix of playfulness and precision. The premise is simple and irresistible: a candid inventory of the small fears and soft hesitations that shape modern life, spun into tightly crafted, fast-moving stand-up. From the first beat, Yvain plays with the line between fragile and fearless, letting the audience recognize themselves in the micro-cowardices we all practice: dodging a phone call, delaying a decision, negotiating with an alarm clock. Within our four walls, Pas courageux becomes a conversation—cheeky, generous, sometimes piercing—where the punchlines are steeped in lived-in detail and the silences are mined for surprise.

What’s new from Yvain

We welcome Yvain at Le Boui-Boui at a vibrant moment in his creative trajectory. Over the past months, he has sharpened his voice through a steady flow of short-form comedy and club sets, road-testing new angles with the agility of a writer-performer in full stride. His recent sketches—shared in bite-sized clips and in late-night slots—show his knack for transforming small dilemmas into big laughs, with titles that have already become audience favorites: “La File d’attente,” a whirlwind of petty anxieties and queue etiquette; “Plan B,” an escalating ode to last-minute improvisation; “Petit démon du canapé,” a playful battle between ambition and the call of comfort; “Le SMS qu’on n’envoie pas,” a tour through text-message overthinking; and “Guide de survie chez Ikea,” where love, logistics, and a tiny Allen key collide. These pieces reveal a performer who writes with musicality—setups that hum, tags that ripple, and call-backs that click into place—yet never loses the looseness that makes live comedy feel alive. Coming into Pas courageux, Yvain stitches these instincts into a fuller tapestry: a one-man journey that connects quick-hit sketches to a broader, more confessional arc, without sacrificing the punch-per-minute rhythm that our room adores.

From our vantage point at Le Boui-Boui, Pas courageux is the kind of show that thrives in close quarters: it favors the conspiratorial whisper as much as the explosive riff, and it gives space to the audience’s own laughter patterns to shape the ride. Expect a nimble mix of polished bits and in-the-moment ping-pong, where crowd interactions seed fresh detours and running gags bloom over the hour. The writing is observant—peppered with the nuts-and-bolts of daily existence: mismatched schedules, small-talk politics, the peril of choosing a restaurant—and the delivery is spring-loaded, attentive to timing that lets a grin stretch just long enough to turn into a belly laugh. We program Pas courageux because it feels both current and durable: a snapshot of the here-and-now that also taps something timeless about courage, or its charming absence. If you enjoy stand-up that is conversational and cleverly structured—with call-backs threaded from the opening minutes to a satisfying final knot—you’ll find Yvain’s craft perfectly at home on our stage. And if you’ve never seen stand-up in a room as intimate as ours, this is the night to discover how a hundred tiny admissions can add up to one gleeful, cathartic roar.