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

Félix le Braz at Le Boui-Boui: A Night Built for Intimacy and Laughter

At Le Boui-Boui, we thrive on those electric, close-up moments when a performer can feel every breath of the room and answer every ripple of laughter in real time. That’s exactly why we’re delighted to welcome Félix le Braz with Flashback Generation VHS. Our intimate Lyon stage is a perfect match for his quicksilver wit and finely tuned observational humor, where the smallest eyebrow raise or the fastest call-back lands with precision. From the vantage point of our lights and the tight geometry of our seating, Félix’s talent for drawing the audience into his world—one packed with outmoded cassettes, cardboard video-club sleeves, and the collective memory of Saturday-night movie rituals—feels more like a spirited conversation than a performance. Expect a buoyant, convivial atmosphere: Félix thrives on room energy, riffing with spectators, folding spontaneous reactions into stories, and leaning into that joyous sense of recognition when a detail from a VHS childhood suddenly sparks across the room. In our house, that spark spreads fast. His timing, physical ease, and knack for character work make this show an ideal fit for Le Boui-Boui’s hallmark: comedy that is close, alive, and gloriously human-scale.

Flashback Generation VHS: Nostalgia Rewound for Today’s Audience

Flashback Generation VHS is Félix le Braz playing to his strengths—nostalgia with a modern tempo, memory scrolled at 1.5x speed, and punchlines crisp enough to cut through the static. The show toggles between the bittersweet and the brilliantly silly, packaging family recordings, clunky camcorders, and video-store etiquette into vivid scenes and hairpin turns. In our programming notes, we’ve already nicknamed a few recurring bits for our team: “Play, Stop, Rewind,” a whirlwind on how rewinding became a ritual of patience and punishment; “Le Vidéoclub du Quartier,” populated with that clerk who always judged your tape choice; and “Tracking Lines,” a physical comedy gem about the desperate dance to fix a rolling image. You’ll also hear Félix shift voices on a dime, from the hyper-protective parent archiving every school recital to the friend who taped over a birthday with late-night ads and never lived it down. Because our room places performer and audience almost eye-to-eye, the stagecraft shines: tiny gestures read like punchlines, and once the crowd clicks into the show’s shared references—record buttons, rental fines, those thrilling fuzzy previews—the laughter ricochets wall to wall.

From our vantage point at Le Boui-Boui, Félix le Braz arrives in fine artistic form, sharpening material in front of live audiences and channeling that momentum into Flashback Generation VHS. This is a comedian who understands the present-tense of performance: he stitches new asides into the fabric of the show, reacts to the room with quick reflexes, and keeps his nostalgia active—less a museum tour, more a living remix. In recent sets, he’s been road-testing compact bits that fans have been buzzing about, the kind of viral-friendly turns that work onstage and translate beautifully to short clips. As a venue, we value that nimbleness: it means each performance gains a few extra threads—a fresh line here, a sharper tag there—so no two nights are quite the same. For Lyon audiences, it’s a chance to catch Félix up close during a creative stretch where he’s generating and refining in full view, exploring the texture of VHS memory and the goofy grandeur of an era when you had to choose one movie for the weekend and live with it. At Le Boui-Boui, we’re set to amplify that energy, keeping the sound tight, the lights warm, and the connection immediate, so that every callback lands and every burst of laughter feels like it belongs to this room and this moment.