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

At Le Boui-Boui, a love letter to the analog era

From our stage at Le Boui-Boui in Lyon, we are delighted to welcome Félix Le Braz with Flashback Generation VHS, a brisk, affectionate dive into the flicker and fuzz of the pre-streaming age. In our intimate room, the beat-to-beat rhythm of his storytelling lands with the immediacy it deserves: you can hear every chuckle, every gasp, and every whispered aside as he spins a comedic time machine around the whirr of a tape deck and the stubborn mystique of “tracking.” The show celebrates the peculiar rituals of the VHS era—rewinding before returning, the family tape that accidentally taped over a wedding, the Sunday-night movie taped in SP when LP would have fit—and it does so with wry observation and the warm complicity of shared memory. Our audience in Lyon will find themselves nodding along as Félix rebuilds lost habits, lost jingles, and the unmistakable glow of a cathode-ray tube, then connects that nostalgia to how we live, watch, and remember today.

Félix Le Braz, up close and in the present tense

What excites us about presenting Flashback Generation VHS at Le Boui-Boui is that Félix Le Braz approaches memory not as a museum, but as living material. The set is fresh, agile, and studded with new bits he has been honing to razor sharpness on the road. Expect sequences he affectionately labels Retour au Vidéoclub, Copie Interdite, La Guerre des Télécommandes, Rembobiner Avant de Rendre, and Ecran Bleu 00:00—distinct sketches that pass the mic from family living rooms to neighborhood rental counters and back again, all while inviting the crowd to fill in the corners with their own recollections. The humor lands for anyone who ever argued about who taped over what, but it’s also for digital natives who only know “buffering.” Félix plays with that generational dialogue, placing side by side the tactile drama of magnetic tape and today’s endless scroll, using sharp callbacks, quick character pivots, and a knack for turning tiny objects—a sticker that reads “Ne pas enregistrer,” a TV remote with missing batteries—into full-blown comic set pieces.

As a venue, we love how this show is tailored to the closeness of Le Boui-Boui. The timing, the eye contact, the playful riffs with the front row—Flashback Generation VHS thrives in rooms where performer and audience can breathe the same beat, and that is precisely the atmosphere we cultivate here in Lyon. Félix Le Braz has built a performance that rewards attention with rapid-fire payoffs: misheard TV idents reborn as punchlines; childhood bedroom monologues spooling out into cinematic reveals; and those beautifully awkward pauses familiar to anyone who ever prayed a VCR wouldn’t eat the tape. On our stage, he rides that push-and-pull with practiced ease, holding the room in the pocket as he shifts gear from brisk observational runs to tender, almost confessional snapshots. If you remember store-bought head-cleaner cassettes—or if you’ve only seen them in retro memes—our room gives you the perfect vantage point to see how Félix turns these artifacts into living comedy. Le Boui-Boui is proud to host a night where the past doesn’t just replay; it improvises in the present, one laugh at a time.