Marine Leonardi « Mauvaise Graine »

Marine Leonardi, a French comedian, strips everyday life bare with sharp, precise dark humor. In Mauvaise Graine, she probes what gets stuck in coupledom and parenting: the mental load that seeps into everything, the prescriptive pressures that cling, and the roles we assume by reflex. She exposes contradictions, recounts love and exhaustion, the lopsided divisions and those little remarks we swallow. Her writing is direct, the punchlines crisp, situated between blunt candor and clear‑sighted observation. She chooses a frontal angle without affectation, stringing together scenes that ring true and deflate certainties.

Marine Leonardi presents this show on March 25, 2026, at the Bourse du Travail in Lyon. On stage, there is no moralizing or big effects—just a tight comic engine that grabs domestic life and turns it inside out for the duration of an honest, edgy stand‑up. You recognize everyday life there: its slip-ups and compromises, and those phrases we don’t always dare to voice.