Yvain Dans Pas Courageux - Le Boui-boui, Lyon

At Le Boui-Boui: a close‑up rendezvous with Yvain

At Le Boui-Boui, our stage is built for the kind of electric, eye-to-eye comedy that thrives on proximity, and that is exactly why we are thrilled to welcome Yvain with his new hour, Pas Courageux. Our intimate room in the heart of Lyon turns every breath, pause, and punchline into something you can feel—laughter ricochets off the brick, glances between performer and audience become part of the score, and the front row is never more than an arm’s length from the action. For this run, our team has tuned the sound and lights to enhance the show’s quick turns from confession to cheeky provocation, keeping the spotlight nimble so Yvain can roam, riff, and read the room. Arrive early, settle in at the bar, and let our staff guide you to seats where you’ll catch every wink and whisper; Pas Courageux is designed to bloom in precisely the kind of close quarters that Le Boui-Boui has championed since day one.

Pas Courageux at Le Boui-Boui

Pas Courageux is a candid, fast-moving tour of fear, hesitation, and those absurd micro-panics that ambush us in the supermarket queue, on a first date, or at 3 a.m. when the brain decides to replay the world’s most embarrassing memories. Yvain threads the hour with playful mini-chapters—expect on-the-night titles like “Le Casque de Vélo,” “Mode Avion,” “Le Héros de Personne,” and “La To‑Do Liste Infinie”—signposts he uses to pivot from one confession to the next without losing the audience’s hand. In our room, his cadence feels almost musical: a soft-spoken admission, a sidelong look, and then a burst of physicality that sends the punch across the aisle. He flirts with improvisation, pulling gentle stories from the crowd and weaving them back into his own narrative about dodged phone calls, unread emails, and the delicate art of pretending to be brave. It is observational, yes, but with a generous streak; the pleasure is not in mocking life’s anxieties but in naming them out loud so we can share the laugh together.

As a venue that follows comedians through their creative cycles, we can feel the momentum behind Yvain right now. Pas Courageux arrives at Le Boui-Boui as a sharpened hour shaped by late-night testing and an appetite for new angles on everyday dread. He has been refreshing sections with crisp, self-contained bits—recent crowd-pleasers in our room include “Le Coup de Fil à Maman,” a spiraling ode to procrastination disguised as familial duty; “La Réunion Zoom,” where technological glitches become existential metaphors; and “Petit Courage,” a tender riff on the tiny braveries that get us through the week. Between these set pieces, he plays with shorter beats like “Le Digicode,” “Chaussure Gauche,” and “Le Dernier Bus,” quick sketches that snap into place like postcards inside the larger journey of Pas Courageux. From where we sit, this is an artist in a lively present tense, testing bolder rhythms, tightening callbacks, and anchoring it all with the warm rapport that our audience rewards. If you’ve seen him before, you’ll feel the evolution; if you’re discovering him at Le Boui-Boui, you’ll see why small stages are where big voices first ring true.