Marine Leonardi « Mauvaise Graine »

Marine Leonardi presents Mauvaise Graine, a stand-up show in which she turns everyday annoyances on their head with unabashed cynicism and precise dark humor. She probes coupledom, motherhood, the mental load and the roles people take on without questioning them much. Direct writing, an eye for detail, crisp punchlines: she pinpoints what stings and turns awkwardness into material for laughter, never trying to sugarcoat it. See her on 18 November 2026 at the Bourse du Travail, Lyon.

Originally from theatre before diving into stand-up, Marine Leonardi has honed a rhythmic stage presence where the tension of silences is matched by the candor of her material. Having appeared on stages such as the Jamel Comedy Club and various Parisian venues, she has developed a blunt, frontal take on family and relationships, able to speak as much to new parents as to those who bristle at domestic pressures. Mauvaise Graine is her experimental playground: a fragmented narrative, surgically precise, that embraces its sharp angles and lets a discreet tenderness peek through behind the irony.