Yvain Dans Pas Courageux - Le Boui-boui, Lyon

Welcoming Yvain dans pas courageux to Le Boui-Boui

At Le Boui-Boui, we take pride in giving bold voices an intimate stage, and Yvain dans pas courageux is a perfect match for our room’s close-up energy. As a venue, we love hearing the first ripple of laughter turn into a wave, and Yvain’s playful exploration of fear, hesitation, and those tiny daily heroics is built for that kind of proximity. From the first beat, he uses the tension of “what would you do?” to spark both comedy and recognition, turning small anxieties into big, cathartic laughs. Our compact setting keeps the timing razor-sharp—every eyebrow raise, every whisper, every sudden burst of bravado lands with precision. Expect a witty, fast-moving hour where Yvain toys with the audience’s expectations, switches gears on a dime, and crafts callbacks that tie the night together. Whether he’s riffing on social awkwardness, the myth of the “fearless adult,” or the secret bravery of doing nothing at all, the show embraces the contradictory ways we deal with risk. It’s the sort of stand-up that thrives on eye contact, shared breath, and the feeling that the next punchline is hovering right over the mic, waiting for the whole room to lean in.

An artist on the move: new bits, new textures, same sharp edge

Part of what excites us about hosting Yvain right now is his artistic momentum. Offstage and in clubs, he has been building a fresh repertoire that feeds directly into pas courageux, testing, trimming, and heightening material with the discipline of a storyteller and the agility of an improviser. Recently, audiences have been buzzing about compact, memorable routines that he has been honing—sketches like “Micro-Courage,” “La File d’Attente,” “Fight or Flight Mode,” “Le Héros du Canapé,” and “Le Bouton Rouge,” which echo the show’s central theme with clever variations. We’ve also seen the crowd respond to his quick-hit pieces such as “Plan Vigie Moral,” “Le Sauve-qui-Peut Coaching,” and “Rien qu’un Cri de Mouette,” bite-sized ideas that blossom into full scenes once he’s on our stage. Yvain’s narrative sense keeps the evening cohesive: one moment he’s dissecting the split-second dread of answering an unknown number, the next he’s unraveling how courage and embarrassment are often two names for the same sweaty-palmed instinct. For us as a venue, that structure is gold—it lets the night breathe, gives space for audience reaction, and invites spontaneous side roads without losing the map.

Our team at Le Boui-Boui has shaped the room to spotlight exactly this kind of comedy: warm lights that hold the face, tight sound that carries a whisper to the back row, and a layout that blurs the distance between performer and audience. In Yvain dans pas courageux, those details become part of the punchline mechanics—the hush before a confession, the gasp before a twist, the laughter that rebounds and encourages him to push further. We’ve planned the pacing so that early, observational bits soft-launch the themes and later, bigger set pieces—built around escalating dares, the etiquette of panic, and the theatre of self-preservation—can detonate without losing intimacy. The show is playful without being cynical, precise without feeling scripted, and personal without slipping into monologue. It’s the kind of night where seat location hardly matters; you’ll feel addressed, implicated, and gleefully seen. As ever, our goal is simple: give Yvain the perfect conditions to turn hesitation into humor, and let Lyon hear how far a brave joke can travel inside a small room when everyone chooses to lean into the same delicious fear.