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

Félix Le Braz at Le Boui-Boui: Flashback, Generation VHS on our stage

At Le Boui-Boui, we live for nights when a performer’s universe meshes perfectly with the intimacy of our room, and Félix Le Braz achieves exactly that with Flashback, Generation VHS. From the moment the lights dip, our audience is pulled into a funny, warm-blooded plunge through the analog years, where video clubs, family camcorders, and tape hiss become springboards for razor-sharp stand-up. As a small, close-up venue in Lyon, we prize the kind of connection that lets audiences feel every beat of a joke and every unscripted aside, and Félix’s timing and crowd work thrive in this setting. He speaks to those who grew up recording over cherished cassettes and discovering bootleg dubs, but he also wins over younger spectators who recognize themselves in the universal awkwardness of home movies and tech mishaps. Flashback, Generation VHS is nostalgia with teeth: affectionate about the era’s textures and rituals, but also clear-eyed about how those clunky machines shaped our rhythms, our families, and our sense of pop culture.

What unfolds during Flashback, Generation VHS at our house

Our team has tailored the sound and light to amplify Félix Le Braz’s retro mood without ever overshadowing his wordplay. Expect snappy audio stingers, crunchy “rewind” cues, and a palette that evokes cathode-ray glow without turning the show into museum theater. Félix builds longer stories out of small, tactile details: the tracking button that never quite fixed the snow, the ritual of choosing a tape by its worn sleeve, the dread of returning a cassette un-rewound, the unintentional jump cuts of a wedding tape recorded over a holiday cartoon. On our compact stage, these bits become playful social archaeology. You’ll see him pivot from a shared memory to an incisive observation about attention spans, or how waiting—rewinding, buffering, sitting through long credits—once made viewing communal. The show is welcomingly participatory, too: Félix often invites quick audience memories, and in our room, those exchanges fire instantly, spawning callbacks that ripple through the rest of the set. He moves with ease between physical comedy and pristine punchlines, and because the distance between performer and spectator at Le Boui-Boui is measured in meters, not rows, you witness the micro-expressions and split-second recalibrations that give stand-up its live-wire thrill.

As a performer, Félix Le Braz is currently enjoying a wave of momentum that suits Flashback, Generation VHS perfectly. He’s touring this piece widely while continuing to refine new material on club stages, keeping the hour alive with topical tags and fresh improvisations that reflect the crowd in front of him. Our booking team seeks artists who treat a show like a living organism, and Félix’s work ethic is visible in how he tailors references from night to night—whether it’s a Lyon-specific nod to neighborhood video stores of yesteryear or a playful aside about the stubborn romance of audio cassettes and cathode-ray TVs. In recent months, his short-form clips and radio chats have introduced broader audiences to the sensibility you’ll encounter here: a comic voice that celebrates the past while interrogating it, and a stage presence that invites everyone in the room to co-author the night. At Le Boui-Boui, we’ve set the room for the kind of encounter that only a venue like ours can host: you, Félix Le Braz, and a shared hour where the analog ghosts of the 80s and 90s flicker back to life—not as museum pieces, but as living prompts for big laughs, surprising tenderness, and the collective hum of a crowd discovering the same memory at the same time.