Yvain Dans Pas Courageux - Le Boui-boui, Lyon

Welcoming Yvain to our intimate Lyon stage

At Le Boui-Boui, we are delighted to host Yvain with Pas courageux on our intimate stage in Lyon, a room designed for proximity, quick-fire exchanges, and the kind of shared laughter that only happens when performer and audience are close enough to see each other breathe. As a venue devoted to the living pulse of stand-up, we champion artists who transform everyday nerves into wit, and Yvain embodies that promise. His current moment feels alive with new ideas and a sharpened sense of timing, the kind of work that makes a cozy room fizz. If your humor diet includes the competitive mischief of LOL: Qui rit, sort!, the sketch energy of SNL France, or the club spirit popularized by Le Jamel Comedy Club, you’ll recognize the agile rhythm and contemporary references Yvain brings to the mic—yet with a voice pointed squarely at the small acts of hesitation we know all too well.

Inside Pas courageux at Le Boui-Boui

Pas courageux finds its spark in the little derailments of daily life: the buzzing phone you won’t answer, the email that grows fangs the longer it sits, the heroic quest to decline a party without offending the group chat. In our black-box space, those micro-panics become bright, generous storytelling. Yvain glides between crisp observational beats and playful character slips, mapping the distance between what we say and what we mean with swift reversals, pauses, and sudden bursts of physicality. Expect razor-edged riffs on social anxieties, bureaucracy’s labyrinths, friendship diplomacy, and the fine art of pretending you’re fine. Our stage team keeps the sound warm and the lights nimble so that each switch—from confessional to comeback, from muttered aside to crowdwide punch—lands with immediacy. For audiences who binge sketch ecosystems like Golden Moustache or Studio Bagel, or sample the live-wire banter you catch orbiting talk formats such as Le Late avec Alain Chabat, this hour at Le Boui-Boui offers that same appetite for pace and surprise, concentrated into a face-to-face encounter where the stakes are delightfully human.

As a home for stand-up in Lyon, we love when a show like Pas courageux turns hesitation into a live game: the performer daring himself to go further, the room daring itself to recognize its own reflections. Yvain’s writing leans into the reality that courage is rarely cinematic; more often it’s sliding into a meeting you feared, calling someone back, or admitting you don’t have the answers. That makes this set a perfect fit for our venue’s scale, where the front row becomes a chorus of accomplices and the back row hears each under-the-breath punchline as clearly as a spotlight. We prepare the room so that improvisation can bloom—if Yvain catches a glance, an untimely ringtone, or a whispered comment, it may turn into a running gag that threads the night. And because Le Boui-Boui cultivates a tight flow—from doors to seating to lights-up—you’ll feel the performance as one continuous arc. Whether you’re discovering Yvain for the first time or following the evolution that has him sharpening new bits on stage right now, Pas courageux at Le Boui-Boui captures the electricity of a comic meeting his audience where it matters most: in the cramped elevator of everyday life, ready to press the button and see who laughs first.