Yvain Dans Pas Courageux - Le Boui-boui, Lyon

Yvain at Le Boui-Boui: pas courageux meets our intimate stage

At Le Boui-Boui, we delight in welcoming performers whose craft thrives on direct contact with the audience, and Yvain brings exactly that spark with pas courageux. From the first steps on our compact stage, he works the room with a disarming mix of vulnerability and razor-sharp observation, turning the everyday tremors of adult life into generous laughter. We love how the premise—the little hesitations we all feel—becomes fuel for nimble storytelling, sudden character shifts, and quicksilver callbacks that knit the hour together. Yvain’s voice is both playful and precise, and in our venue’s close quarters his timing lands with the satisfying clarity only a true live room can offer. Whether he’s riffing on that universal urge to step back from awkward moments or converting mild panic into punchlines, pas courageux feels tailor-made for the atmosphere we cultivate: warm, responsive, and wired for surprise. For audiences who come to Le Boui-Boui seeking an evening of contemporary stand-up that’s personal without being precious, this set delivers a refreshing blend of sincerity and audacity.

What unfolds in pas courageux on our stage

Our crowd gets to see Yvain build momentum through finely etched vignettes that reveal how courage can wobble in the most ordinary seconds. The show glides from social snafus to private catastrophes that never quite happen, and he peppers the hour with memorable beats like “Mode Avion du Courage,” “Le Héros du Dimanche,” and “Micro-panique au supermarché,” each a miniature world with its own rhythm. When he shifts into “Le Voisin Parfait,” the room becomes an apartment corridor buzzing with suspicion and goodwill, while “Kit de Survie pour Adultes” turns self-help clichés inside out to find something genuinely human beneath the posture. We’ve seen audiences lean in during “Le Message Vocal de Trop,” then erupt as he stretches a single notification into an operatic crisis of confidence. The writing is agile, the physicality unshowy but precise, and the crowd work respectful yet mischievous—just the balance that fits our low-ceilinged space. At Le Boui-Boui, silence is as audible as laughter, and Yvain uses both to draw out the kind of shared recognition that keeps a room buzzing long after the lights come up.

As a house that champions artists in full creative motion, we’re excited to host Yvain at this moment, when pas courageux is alive with fresh tags and newly tightened transitions. He arrives with a steady flow of new short-form bits circulating online and a momentum built on word-of-mouth from recent live rooms, which makes our schedule here in Lyon feel like a hub for audiences catching the hour while it’s evolving in real time. If you’ve been tracking his playful micro-stories—the way he spins a glance from a stranger into a comic domino effect—you’ll recognize that sensibility reframed into longer arcs on our stage. Expect a show paced for discovery rather than noise: bursts of laughter, yes, but also the satisfying hush before a punch lands twice as hard. Our team has shaped the room to support the intimacy he thrives on, from sightlines to sound, so the smallest eyebrow raise reads as large as a punchline. Whether you’re a regular at Le Boui-Boui or visiting Lyon and curious about the city’s comedy heartbeat, this is exactly the kind of hour our venue exists to amplify: personal, polished, and irresistibly in the moment, with Yvain guiding the ride under the banner of pas courageux.