Tanguy Pastureau - Un Monde Hostile - Tournée

Tanguy Pastureau brings Un Monde Hostile to Lyon

From our vantage point as a stage devoted to sharp, contemporary performance, welcoming Tanguy Pastureau and his Un Monde Hostile tournée to Lyon feels like a natural fit. Audiences here know him for his crystalline phrasing, surgical timing, and the way he draws laughter from the pressure points of modern life. His onstage voice has been honed by years of daily combat with the news cycle on France Inter, notably through La Bande Originale and the much-loved Tanguy Pastureau maltraite l’info, and by high-profile showcases such as Montreux Comedy. In Un Monde Hostile he takes that signature precision and stretches it into a full-length narrative, coupling meticulous writing with a disarmingly calm stage presence. The result is a set that feels both intimate and national in scope: a comedian speaking softly to the front row while diagnosing the larger absurdities that swirl around everyone in the room. Lyon’s appetite for wry, intelligent stand-up makes this encounter especially enticing.

A timely, razor‑sharp set from a leading French voice

Un Monde Hostile narrows its gaze on everything that conspires to make daily life feel like a gauntlet: the vanity circus of public figures, the dopamine traps of our feeds, the jargon of “wellness” and “leadership,” and the tiny humiliations of the office, city streets, and public services. Pastureau’s method is to resist ranting; he lays out a calm dossier and lets irony do the heavy lifting, with punchlines that land late and hard. Listeners who came to him through La Bande Originale will recognise the craftsmanship—those compact, perfectly weighted sentences that once sliced through headlines now expand into longer stories, spiralling comparisons, and elegantly planted callbacks. Fans of his previous solo show, Tanguy Pastureau n’est pas célèbre, will also notice how this new chapter evolves the same themes of status and visibility into something more societal, more collective, and—crucially—funnier. In recent seasons he has continued to surface in major comedy rendezvous such as Montreux Comedy and remained a reference voice for radio satire; the momentum of that work is fully visible on stage here, with a text that is living, annotated by the week’s events, and adapted with the agility of a seasoned columnist.

Hosting this tour stop in Lyon allows us to underline what makes Pastureau’s craft so satisfying in a theatre setting: the detail. He is a comedian of precision and patience, building multi-step ideas about power, snobbery, algorithms, and media rituals, then puncturing them with a single deadpan adjective. The room gets to breathe with him; the pauses become part of the joke; and the city’s own rhythms—its commutes, its conversations, its insistence on nuance—mirror the performance’s tempo. Expect references that nod to long-time followers of Tanguy Pastureau maltraite l’info, as well as new onstage passages he has been refining during this tournée to keep the material live and responsive. What we value, and what audiences consistently reward, is the cohesion: each riff has a destination, each anecdote contains a sly thesis, and the through-line of Un Monde Hostile tethers personal observations to the larger theatre of politics and culture. In an era crowded with loud takes, Pastureau offers the rare pleasure of quiet mastery—proof that the sharpest comedy doesn’t shout, it simply illuminates.