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

Le Boui-Boui welcomes Félix Le Braz with Flashback Generation VHS

At Le Boui-Boui in Lyon, we thrive on evenings that feel both intimate and electric, the kind where every laugh seems to bounce off the brickwork and back into the next punchline. That is precisely why we are thrilled to host Félix Le Braz for Flashback Generation VHS, a show tailor-made for a room that loves storytelling up close and personal. From the front row to the back, audiences here crave performers who fuse finesse with generosity, and Félix has arrived with momentum, new material, and the kind of stagecraft that blossoms in a venue like ours. Over recent months, his short-form clips have been shared widely across social platforms, introducing a new wave of spectators to his kinetic timing and affectionate nostalgia. We see that curiosity in our lobby chatter before doors open: people swapping memories of video clubs, Saturday nights with homemade cassettes, and the satisfying snap of a tape case. As a house that lives for collective experiences, we can already feel how Flashback Generation VHS connects dots—between analog memories and today’s digital reflexes—through Félix’s lens of warm, witty observation.

Inside Flashback Generation VHS: a live rewind of analog life

On our stage, Félix Le Braz dives into the VHS era not as a museum piece but as a living, breathing playground. He turns the tracking button into a dramatic device, mimics the ghostly wobble of a tape that’s been recorded over one too many times, and embodies the characters that shaped our living-room cinemas: the video-store clerk who judges your weekend picks, the cousin who always “accidentally” taped over the finale, the parent who never trusted the pause button. What makes the show spark at Le Boui-Boui is his dexterity with sound and rhythm—those chunky rewinds, the click-whirr of a VCR, the sudden jump cuts that he re-creates with voice and body. Félix contrasts those tactile rituals with the hyper-speed culture of now, peppering his set with nods to the binge era and its omnipresent formats. When he jokes about how we hop from one sensation to the next—between LOL: Qui rit, sort!, Hot Ones France, Quotidien, or even Drag Race France—he’s not just name-checking; he’s mapping how attention has evolved since the days when choosing a single cassette felt like a ceremony. In our cozy room, that contrast comes alive: you can hear the audience recognize themselves in the analog aches and the digital impulses, often within the same breath. Félix’s crowd work is unforced and playful, letting spectators volunteer their own “tape disasters” and bygone habits, and he weaves those confessions into his narrative with the ease of a seasoned MC. The result is less a nostalgia trip than a finely tuned comedy concert about memory, technology, and all the little epics we staged on a shag carpet in front of a glowing tube.

As hosts, we have watched Félix refine Flashback Generation VHS with the curiosity of a craftsman updating a beloved tool. Each date at Le Boui-Boui carries its own surprises: a fresh riff sparked by a spectator’s story; a new transition that lands like a perfectly timed freeze-frame; a sound effect sharpened until it triggers a wave of recognition before the punchline even arrives. For fans following his artistic news, this run arrives at a buoyant moment—his recent bits have found a second life online, and the word of mouth has been loud in Lyon. We also love the way he honors pop-culture touchstones without leaning on them as crutches: he may wink at rental-card laminates, Friday-night marathons, trailers with deep-voiced narrators, or the ritual of rewinding “to be kind,” but he always returns to the human side—siblings arguing over the remote, friends huddling around a glitchy recording of a big match, the communal hush when the opening logos floated onto the screen. In a space built for connection, that human scale is everything. Our job, then, is simple: dim the lights, let the room gather around the glow, and watch Félix Le Braz press play on Flashback Generation VHS—a show that turns private memories into a shared, laughing chorus. At Le Boui-Boui, that is the kind of night we live for.