Félix Le Braz - Flashback - Génération Vhs - Le Boui Boui Lyon

Félix Le Braz brings Flashback Generation VHS to Le Boui-Boui

From our stage at Le Boui-Boui, we are thrilled to welcome Félix Le Braz with Flashback Generation VHS, a live experience tailor‑made for the intimacy and immediacy of our room. As a venue that prizes proximity between artist and audience, we have long championed performers who transform nostalgia into something electric and present-tense. Félix arrives with a set that does exactly that: a fast, tactile, and laugh-packed rewind through the analog era, sharpened by the timing only a seasoned stand-up can command. In recent months, audiences have been buzzing about his compact, shareable bits—sketches like “Mode Lecture,” “Rembobiner,” “Eject,” and “Vidéo Club Lyonnais”—because they preview the mix of quick-fire physicality and finely observed storytelling that powers this show. Our stage will be his living room, his video shop counter, his family couch from a Saturday night in the 90s, and you’ll hear the click of a VCR button wherever he steers the crowd next. The effect in our space is immediate: the references land, the punchlines breathe, and the room becomes a time capsule humming with laughter.

Inside the analog heartbeat of a cult-era comedy set

Flashback Generation VHS thrives on the materiality of the old home-video world—tracking lines, tape hiss, the hypnotic churn of a cassette, and the ritual of choosing a film from a wall of plastic spines. Félix builds full scenes from the tiny gestures we all remember: blowing dust from a cassette head, fixing a tape with scotch, or fighting the “blue screen” while the VCR hunts for a signal. He flips between characters with cinematic precision, echoing the dubbed bravado of action imports one minute and the tender awkwardness of a camcorder wedding the next. Expect call-backs that function like hidden extras, and segments that fans already recognize by name—“Camcorder Dad,” “Pan & Scan,” “Tracking Lines,” and “Carte du Vidéo Club”—each structured with the rhythm of a home recording where nothing is edited out, yet everything is perfectly timed. His stage pictures are lean but vivid, his sound cues subtle, and his crowd work stitched into the flow: a quick survey of your first rental, a playful debate about the best cover art, or a lightning riff on “please be kind, rewind.” In our low-slung room, the analog heartbeat becomes a groove you can feel seat to stage.

At Le Boui-Boui, we design the night around that pulse. The close sightlines invite you into Félix’s micro-gestures—the finger tap on a plastic flap, the squint at a static-streaked screen—so the smallest choices detonate into big laughs. He layers anecdotes with set-piece sketches and drops in agile, topical tags shaped by recent audience-favorite moments like “Pause/Play,” “Auto-Tracking,” and “Région Interdite.” Because our room rewards spontaneity, his improvisations blossom: a mispronounced film title becomes a runner; a front-row memory of a family camcorder becomes a whole B-side. The set moves like a cassette’s side A: no wasted minutes, crescendos in the right places, and a snap-back encore of callbacks that connect the night. If you’re a first-time visitor, expect a compact, high-energy run time that feels expansive; if you’re a regular, you know how our house lighting and sound contour every beat for clarity and punch. Flashback Generation VHS in our venue isn’t just a show about tapes—it’s the satisfying click when a cassette seats perfectly in the deck, a shared ritual that reminds us why live comedy belongs in a room like ours, with Félix Le Braz close enough to catch every rewind.