Yvain Dans Pas Courageux - Le Boui-boui, Lyon

Yvain dans Pas courageux at Le Boui-Boui

At Le Boui-Boui in Lyon, we welcome Yvain with open arms and a stage designed for the sharp intimacy of his new hour, Pas courageux. Our room favors honesty, quick turns of phrase, and the kind of spontaneous interaction that a larger stage can’t always hold, and Yvain leans into that closeness with irresistible timing. He builds his universe around the everyday standoffs that define modern life: a text not sent, a phone call avoided, the brave face we put on just before backing down. In our space, those micro-moments amplify into laughter that rolls from the first row to the back wall. Pas courageux is more than a confession of timid impulses—it’s a meticulous mosaic of self-deprecation, social observation, and gentle absurdity, fine-tuned for the immediacy of Le Boui-Boui. Expect riffs that bloom into stories, pauses that wink, and crowd work that keeps the room uniquely present. We love how Yvain’s voice balances vulnerability with bite; he lets you recognize yourself, then nudges you to laugh at it with him.

What’s new with Yvain

We have watched Yvain’s recent creative momentum with attention befitting a headliner in our schedule. Ahead of Pas courageux, he has been honing compact, shareable bits that have taken on lives of their own—miniatures he has teased in clubs and online before weaving them into the show. You may spot callbacks to concise, crowd-favorite ideas he’s tagged as Courage en kit, Le frigo vide, Mode avion, Pas de bagarre, and Message vocal de 2 minutes, each a tight slice of daily hesitation rewritten as comic clarity. These snapshots aren’t isolated gags; they are threads in a larger fabric that he is carefully stitching into the live hour. On our stage, we’ve seen how this approach pays off: the audience recognizes the motif, then discovers the deeper layer he saves for the room. For Le Boui-Boui, this is precisely the kind of artistic present-tense we champion—material that evolves from a seed of a sketch into a fully formed sequence, living differently in front of a warm Lyon crowd than it ever could on a screen.

When Yvain steps into the lights at Le Boui-Boui, Pas courageux unfurls like a diary that learned to dance. He talks about the fragile bravado of daily decisions—answering intercoms, choosing seats on public transport, the battlefield of small talk—and transforms them into set pieces that are both polished and playfully porous. The intimacy of our room heightens his improvisations: a quick glance becomes a punchline, a whispered aside reshapes the cadence of the next beat. The pacing is lean, with sequences that escalate—like a harmless white lie turning into logistical gymnastics, or a simple plan morphing into a labyrinth of what-ifs—until laughter breaks the tension he so carefully builds. We curate the evening so that his language, bodywork, and silences travel cleanly; the stage is close, the sound crisp, the welcome relaxed. This is where Pas courageux thrives: in an agile venue that rewards detail and invites complicity. We look forward to sharing this nimble, generous hour with everyone who loves comedy born from real life—and brave enough to admit, with a grin, to being a little pas courageux too.