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

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

At Le Boui-Boui, we are delighted to welcome Félix Le Braz with Flashback Generation VHS, a show tailor-made for an intimate room that thrives on proximity, warmth, and the thrill of live comedy. From the moment he steps onto our stage, the premise is instantly evocative: the tactile world of tapes, tracking lines, and video-club membership cards becomes a playground for storytelling and sharp observational humor. Félix mines the collective memory of a pre-streaming childhood—movie nights, cassette disasters, and the sacred ritual of rewinding—while keeping a keen eye on how those analog habits echo in today’s hyper-digital lives. His pacing is agile, his stagecraft unshowy and precise, and the way he listens to a room is exactly why our audiences love discovering stand-up here: every glance, pause, and callback lands closer, hits harder, and turns a single shared memory into a communal burst of laughter. Flashback Generation VHS is the artist’s latest creation, and on our Lyon stage it becomes a living conversation between generations who knew the glow of a CRT and those curious to finally understand the mystery of “Be kind, rewind.”

On stage at Le Boui-Boui: what you’ll live with Flashback Generation VHS

What makes Flashback Generation VHS such a perfect fit for Le Boui-Boui is the way Félix Le Braz braids nostalgia with invention. The set moves like a mixtape: nimble transitions, bursts of high energy, and tender undercurrents that sneak up on you. He turns the VHS era into a toolbox for modern punchlines—how a tracking knob becomes an analogy for self-adjustment, how the clack of a plastic shell mirrors the sounds we’ve lost in frictionless streaming, how Friday-night pilgrimages to the rental counter forged a democracy of taste that algorithms can’t quite replicate. In the room, he calibrates this material with a precision that only a small, attentive venue can reward: he riffs with the front rows, teases out topical asides about Lyon’s cinephile streak, and pivots smoothly into finely worked set pieces. You can expect distinct stretches that feel like mini-sketches—he has been workshopping segments under working titles such as “Pause/Play,” “Tracking Lines,” and “Friday Night Videoclub”—each one a compact scene with its own rhythm, point of view, and payoff. The humor blooms from detail: sticker labels curling at the corners, the ritual of blowing into a cartridge that never needed it, the phantom menace of late fees (and the moral education they provided). In our black-box setting, subtle act-outs read clearly, and the retro textures—sound cues, physicality, a touch of cinematic cadence—gain an immediacy that large halls tend to dilute. This is a show for anyone who remembers the heft of a tape, and for anyone who’s ever wondered why that heft still tugs at our hearts.

As a venue dedicated to live creation, we also pay attention to the artist’s momentum, and Félix Le Braz arrives with the spark of a comedian in full flow. Flashback Generation VHS is his current focus, and you can feel how the show’s architecture has been honed by stage time: recurring motifs resurface as punchlines later, callbacks sit in the pocket, and the audience’s laughter becomes part of the score. Around this project, he has been shaping new bits—work-in-progress pieces with titles that tell on themselves, like “VHS vs. Cloud,” “Rewind Anxiety,” and “Tape Marks,” the kind of workshop labels that reveal both the concept and the joke’s emotional engine. In our room, those ideas can stretch, breathe, and tighten; a line born from a crowd exchange might evolve into a future highlight, and a physical beat might sharpen by the second show. That live-and-true process is exactly why hosting him at Le Boui-Boui feels so right: our stage is close enough to catch a grin before a tag, our acoustics carry the whisper as much as the punch, and our audience gives the kind of honest, generous feedback that makes a comedian braver. For Lyon comedy lovers and the simply curious, this date with Félix Le Braz is a chance to witness Flashback Generation VHS at the right scale—crafted, playful, and alive to the moment.