Yvain Dans Pas Courageux - Le Boui-boui, Lyon

Le Boui-Boui welcomes Yvain for a razor-sharp new hour

From our snug brick-lined stage at Le Boui-Boui in Lyon, we’re thrilled to host Yvain with his new show Pas Courageux. Our room is built for immediacy: you feel the breath of the punchline, the quicksilver shift of a setup, the unexpected pivot that makes a whole row gasp before bursting into laughter. That intimacy is exactly where Yvain thrives. He works close to the audience, attentive to every glance and murmur, and he turns that electric feedback into fuel. Pas Courageux plays with the edges of fear and bravado in daily life—those tiny negotiations we all make with ourselves on the métro, at the office, in the kitchen—translating them into a rhythm that matches the pulse of our venue. We’ve curated the night so the first beat lands clean, the silences are intentional, and the last laugh hangs in the air just long enough for you to carry it into the Croix-Rousse night.

Pas Courageux at Le Boui-Boui: a living, breathing set

In performance, Yvain slips between confession and mischief, building crescendos from quiet, almost whispered observations to unabashed physicality. Pas Courageux revels in contradiction: it’s about being timid and audacious in the same breath, managing the chaos of modern life with the swagger of a superhero and the survival instincts of someone who still checks behind the shower curtain. At Le Boui-Boui, the set blossoms in dialogue with the room. The front row becomes a chorus, the back row a delayed echo, and Yvain conducts both without losing the thread. He likes to tag sections on the fly—on a given night you may hear him riff on “Le Bouton Rouge” or “Sauver la Face,” then toss those labels away the moment a new idea opens a trapdoor under the bit. Our lights are tuned for these pivots; our sound rides the fine line between intimacy and impact, so you catch the subtlest throwaway and the bellow of a pay-off. It’s an hour that feels both rigorously built and gloriously vulnerable, the sort of set that can only grow in a room like ours.

From our vantage point at Le Boui-Boui, what’s most exciting right now is the way Yvain’s craft is evolving in real time. He arrives with a spine of material honed across club stages and preview nights, then lets the room’s mood nudge the narrative into fresh territory. In recent weeks, we’ve seen him lean harder into stories of micro-courage—ignoring the group chat, answering a difficult call, pretending not to care and caring anyway—braiding them with quick character sketches and nimble callbacks that creep up from earlier in the hour. The audience becomes an accomplice, especially when he blurs written and improvised moments so seamlessly that you forget where one ends and the other begins. For fans following his trajectory, Pas Courageux at Le Boui-Boui is a snapshot of an artist in motion: a comedian testing the tensile strength of his voice, sharpening the blade of his timing, and letting new bits breathe alongside crowd-led detours. We’ve curated the evening so the room stays elastic—responsive, generous, and primed for the spontaneous—because this is precisely where Yvain’s work shines brightest right now.