Yvain Dans Pas Courageux - Le Boui-boui, Lyon

Le Boui-Boui welcomes Yvain with Pas Courageux

At Le Boui-Boui, we love nothing more than a comedian who can make our intimate room feel like a living room full of friends, and that is exactly what happens when Yvain brings Pas Courageux to our stage in Lyon. From the first seconds, he turns the idea of bravery upside down, using the smallest everyday dilemmas to expose the big truths we tiptoe around. In our cozy, close-up setting, the slightest eyebrow raise or whispered aside lands with exhilarating precision, and Yvain exploits that proximity with a performer’s instinct: he listens as much as he speaks, navigates the crowd’s energy with light-footed agility, and swings from soft confessions to sharp punchlines without ever losing the thread. Pas Courageux, as we see it night after night, is a clever mosaic of modern anxieties—phones, deadlines, family negotiations, and that inner voice that always finds a reason to hesitate—stitched together by Yvain’s playful sense of timing and a stagecraft built for eye contact, spontaneity, and the joy of surprise.

Yvain’s current momentum and the pulse of today’s comedy

Le Boui-Boui thrives on the new electricity of French stand-up, and Yvain channels that current with fresh writing and a performer’s hunger to test, tweak, and triumph. Audiences who follow recent comedy programs such as LOL: Qui rit, sort!, Jamel Comedy Club, or the wildly popular YouTube talk-show Zen will immediately recognize the sprinting rhythm and conversational authenticity that shape his work. In Pas Courageux, he doesn’t just riff on fear; he anatomizes the way we brand our lives with efficiency and heroics, only to discover that courage often looks suspiciously like procrastination in disguise. We’ve watched him refine material in our room—tightening transitions, layering tags, and daring the occasional detour when a spontaneous exchange with the front row opens a new doorway. That curiosity keeps the set alive, and it mirrors the way stand-up now travels from stage to clip and back again. He crafts moments that can breathe in the room yet still land as crisp, shareable beats online, a balance that defines the momentum propelling his current run.

What makes Pas Courageux a perfect fit for Le Boui-Boui is the show’s elastic structure: Yvain builds arcs that invite the room to lean in, then detonates them with misdirection, reenactments, and rapid-fire call-backs. Thematically, he roams from the tiny heroic acts we exaggerate—answering an awkward phone call, pretending we understood the instructions—to the bigger performances we stage in work, love, and friendship. Our space amplifies his knack for micro-acting: a half-step retreat becomes a story, an exaggerated inhale turns into a punchline, and a raised palm freezes the room before he pivots to something gloriously petty. As the set unfolds here in Lyon, we see how he sculpts tension—slow-build observational passages, neatly pruned lists of “fixes” that fix nothing, and bits that escalate into joyful chaos—and then resolves it with the kind of release that sends a laugh rolling from the front row to the back. For fans of contemporary stand-up, Pas Courageux at Le Boui-Boui offers a rare combination: the warmth of a neighborhood room, the inventiveness of a writer in motion, and the thrill of watching a comic push his material into the present tense, right before your eyes.