Marine Leonardi « Mauvaise Graine »

On April 3, 2026, Marine Leonardi presents Mauvaise Graine at the Kursaal in Besançon. A French comedian with a razor-sharp observational sense, she probes the everyday frictions: relationships, motherhood, the mental load, and those injunctions that linger. With dark humor that hits the mark, she sheds light on the contradictions we carry without thinking, the lopsided divisions and the little remarks we swallow to keep the peace. Her writing is crisp and the punchlines land, alternating between candid confessions and a clear-eyed view of what’s stuck. No big effects, no moralizing—just familiar situations turned inside out with precision to reveal the angle that stings. Mauvaise Graine tells of love wearing thin, of exhaustion on the horizon, of roles taken on out of habit, and of all the things we prefer to keep quiet about for convenience. A stand-up rooted in reality, where every detail serves the gag and where we recognize our own automatic behaviors as in a slightly mischievous mirror.