Yvain Dans Pas Courageux - Le Boui-boui, Lyon

At Le Boui-Boui: welcoming Yvain in Pas Courageux

At Le Boui-Boui, we champion artists who turn closeness into electricity, and that is exactly why we are delighted to welcome Yvain with his one-man show Pas Courageux. Our intimate room in the heart of Lyon is built for stand-up that breathes with the audience: the kind of space where a raised eyebrow, a whispered aside, or a quick piece of crowd work can ripple through the whole night. Yvain’s humor—self-aware, nimble, and unabashedly human—fits our stage like a glove. If your recent watchlist includes Le Jamel Comedy Club, gala sets from the Montreux Comedy Festival, Paname Comedy Club on Canal+, Un Bon Moment, or the quick-fire wit of France Inter’s Drôle d’Humeur, you’ll recognize the tempo and sharpness that today’s audiences crave. With Pas Courageux, Yvain turns everyday hesitations into comic fuel: the little stalls we make before tough conversations, the way a phone call can feel like a cliff face, and the heroic lengths we go to avoid mild discomfort. It’s observational comedy with a pulse, and in our room, every beat lands up close.

Yvain’s artistic moment, live in Lyon

Right now, Yvain is in that exciting, restless phase any venue loves to host: he’s chiseling an hour that’s lean, relatable, and full of turn-on-a-dime surprises. Pas Courageux is not just a title; it’s a thread that stitches together everyday micro-panics—meeting the neighbors, surviving group chats, flirting with “healthy” habits, navigating paperwork—with a voice that laughs first at itself. We’ve watched him test, tighten, and re-aim bits as he plays to curious crowds across town, and the result on our stage is a show that keeps reshaping itself in the best possible way. Expect quick pivots, light-footed physicality, and a conversational groove that invites you in rather than lecturing from afar. The comedy landscape is buzzing with formats that reward authenticity and rhythm—think the laid-back conversational beats you hear on Un Bon Moment or the brisk live energy you see at Le Jamel Comedy Club—and Yvain rides that current while guarding a sensibility that is distinctly his. In Pas Courageux, he earns laughs by naming the soft fears we all know and then daring us—kindly—to look at them without blinking.

What does that mean for a night at Le Boui-Boui? It means a shared experience where silence is precious and punchlines spring from the room as much as from the mic. Our team loves to seat audiences who are curious, game, and ready to meet a comedian halfway; Yvain rewards that generosity with razor-edged writing and a warm, quick rapport. The show’s pacing lets the room breathe—quiet moments before a reveal, a cheeky aside to a latecomer, that hum you get when a story keeps topping itself. And because Pas Courageux embraces the comic potential of small stakes and close quarters, our space amplifies it: you can feel the tension build and release, hear the grin in a setup, catch the extra wink after a callback. If you’ve been keeping up with contemporary stand-up across Montreux Comedy Festival highlights, Paname Comedy Club, or Drôle d’Humeur on France Inter, you’ll find a kindred, modern rhythm here—only closer, more tactile, more you-had-to-be-there. We’re proud to host Yvain’s current chapter and to offer a front-row seat to the craft of Pas Courageux, exactly where it belongs: within arm’s reach.