Yvain Dans Pas Courageux - Le Boui-boui, Lyon

Le Boui-Boui welcomes Yvain in Pas courageux

At Le Boui-Boui, we love nothing more than watching a sharp comic find the perfect groove with an audience, and that is exactly what happens when Yvain brings Pas courageux to our intimate Lyon stage. From the first beat, his energy fills the room: a blend of quick-thinking wit, disarming honesty, and a knack for squeezing comedy out of the tiny decisions that define everyday bravery—or the lack of it. The show navigates those familiar moments we all dodge: awkward conversations, delayed confrontations, heroic plans that evaporate at the first sign of inconvenience. In our close-quarters theatre, every eyebrow raise, pause, and sotto voce aside lands with precision, turning the space into a confessional where the punchlines feel tailor-made for the crowd in front of him. Yvain leans into physical detail and elastic timing, but it’s the writing that carries Pas courageux: tightly engineered setups that spiral into gleeful escalation, peppered with sudden flips of perspective that invite the room to gasp and laugh in the same breath. We’ve tuned our lights and sound to amplify that rhythm—clean sightlines for the micro-expressions he weaponizes, crisp acoustics so the whispers are as audible as the roars. As a venue that champions new francophone stand-up while celebrating its diversity of voices, we’re delighted to host a comedian who can be both personal and universal, affectionate and incisive. Pas courageux is built for a space like ours: intimate enough for complicity, lively enough for collective mischief, and perfectly sized for Yvain’s playful rapport with the front row and the back row alike.

Yvain’s current creative spark, on our stage in Lyon

What excites us most, night after night, is the sense that Yvain is in a fertile artistic moment—refining new beats, stretching his storytelling, and testing ideas that already feel like signatures. In Pas courageux, he threads together fresh bits that our audiences have been quoting at the bar after the show: pieces like Mode avion (a spiraling confession about disappearing into silence), La relance WhatsApp (the anatomy of a message that took three rewrites and one panic deletion), Héros du dimanche (the myth of the weekend warrior undone by a nap), and La porte qui grince (a small noise that becomes a full-blown horror saga). These new sketches—smart, lived-in, and endearingly self-mocking—sit alongside quick-fire asides that bloom into mini-stories, the kind of moments that make a room collectively recognize itself. We’ve watched him weave those bits into longer arcs, letting call-backs and slow-burn reveals connect the dots between fear, avoidance, and that fragile impulse to try again tomorrow. For us at Le Boui-Boui, this is exactly why we do what we do: to give artists the ideal conditions to chase timing, texture, and truth, and to let audiences see comedy being made in real time. Yvain treats our stage like a laboratory and a living room all at once; he adjusts, riffs, listens, and then plants a new kicker that brings the house down. Whether you’ve discovered him through recent web sketches such as Petit courage, grande histoire or File d’attente, or you’re stepping into his world for the first time, Pas courageux is where his current voice is clearest—precise, playful, and fearlessly about not being fearless. In Lyon, that sensibility blooms: a city that prizes quick humor and warm complicity has met a comedian eager to test himself, and at Le Boui-Boui, we’re proud to host the encounter.