Yvain Dans Pas Courageux - Le Boui-boui, Lyon

Welcoming Yvain and Pas courageux to Le Boui-Boui

At Le Boui-Boui, we thrive on comedy that feels close, quick, and alive, which is precisely why we’re thrilled to host Yvain with his new one-man show, Pas courageux. From the first seconds on our stage, his energy fills the room with a conspiratorial warmth, inviting each spectator into the intimate world he builds joke by joke. Our space is designed for that kind of proximity: the punchlines land a heartbeat away, the silences breathe, and the laughter rolls like a shared secret. Pas courageux turns everyday anxieties into fuel for playful honesty—hesitations at the pharmacy counter, epic battles with customer service, the tiny heroic acts we perform to avoid confrontation. Yvain shapes these moments with taut writing and a light touch, then flips them with a perfectly timed aside or an unexpected callback. In this room, his improvisations feel tailor-made for the audience in front of him, the kind of live-wire spontaneity that has made our late shows legendary. We’ve built a schedule that lets this run breathe, so repeat visitors can catch how he tightens, tweaks, and retools material in real time, without losing that effortless charm.

As a venue, we’ve had a front-row seat to Yvain’s current creative momentum. Between tour dates, he has been sharpening Pas courageux with a steady stream of fresh angles that slot right into the show’s spine. During recent previews at our club, our setlist notes have captured how he threads recurring moments—bits we’ve nicknamed Le courage selon Waze, Rendez-vous médical, Notifications à 3h du matin, and Le voisin du dessus—into a single, fast-rising arc. These labels are our internal shorthand, but they hint at the topics he dissects: navigation apps as moral compasses, bureaucratic etiquette, late-night phone jitters, and the strange symphony of city living. On nights when the room leans into crowd work, Yvain stretches the frame with nimble detours we’ve tagged Traitement de texte and Bouchons périphériques, shorthand for riffs that contrast digital life’s petty perils with the analog chaos of traffic and schedules. In the broader stride of his season, this is a show built to grow: he’s testing tighter transitions, polishing a new opener that digs deeper into the “fear of being bold,” and sketching an encore beat that folds early throwaways into a satisfying snap. The result is a genuinely current set—one that lets audiences feel the rush of material evolving, while still delivering the polish they expect on a headline night.

An intimate night at Le Boui-Boui

What can you expect when the lights go down at Le Boui-Boui for Pas courageux? A compact stage, a direct line-of-sight, and a pace that never drags. Yvain works with minimal props and maximum precision, landing observational jabs and then holding the silence just long enough to let the room answer back. We’ve tuned the sound and lighting to keep every beat crisp—close-mic clarity for whispered confidences, warm washes for the looser, improvisational chapters. On recent performances, he has woven in audience-facing segments that we mark in our cues as Questions pour pas courageux and Impro banco, playful frames that allow spontaneous confessions, callbacks to earlier lines, and the kind of crowd chemistry that makes a small theater feel like an inside joke. At our place, stories bounce off bricks and return richer: tiny fears escalate into heroic sagas, while bravado collapses into a knowing grin. If you’re new to our room, you’ll feel how the intimacy amplifies the humor; if you’re a regular, you’ll spot how Yvain has learned to ride this acoustics-as-partner dynamic to elevate each punchline. In short, the show fits our stage like a tailored suit: agile, human, and just risky enough to make every laugh feel earned.