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

Le Boui-Boui welcomes Felix Le Braz

At Le Boui-Boui, we take pride in championing bold, agile comedians who can turn a room into a storytelling campfire, and few do that with as much warmth and technical finesse as Felix Le Braz. We are thrilled to host his new hour, Flashback Generation VHS, a love letter to the analog age that doubles as a mirror for our digitally distracted present. This engagement arrives at a lively moment for the artist: he has been sharpening a fresh cycle of material that leans into his gift for character work, quick-cut act-outs, and nimble crowd interaction. On our intimate stage, his timing, pantomime, and sound-design mimicry—the whirr of a deck, the judder of a paused frame, the fuzz of tracking lines—land with precision. As a venue designed for tight, immediate connections between performer and audience, Le Boui-Boui is an ideal laboratory for Felix’s evolving hour, where he can push a new tag, reframe a callback, or stretch a visual gag until it snaps back into laughter. Lyon’s appetite for finely crafted stand-up makes this stop an essential chapter in his touring season, and we are delighted to be the room where his newest ideas take flight.

Inside Flashback Generation VHS at Le Boui-Boui

Flashback Generation VHS is an evening of comedic archaeology: Felix digs through the cultural sediment of tape-era life to unearth the rituals, misfires, and myths that shaped a generation. The show unfolds as a sequence of set pieces that build into a cinematic arc, with named bits like “VHS vs Streaming,” in which he remixes the snobbery of algorithmic curation with the tactile joy of shelf-browsing, and “The Rental Card,” a fast-talking character vignette about late fees and weekend queues. In “Tracking Lines and Broken Spools,” he turns a minor household disaster into a slow-burn heist, complete with whispered conspirators and a ballpoint-pen rewind. “Home-Video Olympics” captures the athleticism of family camcorder choreography, while “Pause-Play Parenting” mines the way adults tried to freeze-frame life lessons and always landed a frame too late. The room’s low ceiling and close sightlines amplify his physical craft: micro-expressions and fingertip gestures become punchlines of their own. Expect call-and-response moments, audience memories woven into the fabric of the set, and a closing runner that threads early callbacks into a final, tape-pop release. At Le Boui-Boui, the beats are so immediate you can hear the grin before you see it.

We have curated the night to honor the show’s spirit: an intimate, cinema-adjacent atmosphere where nostalgia meets invention. Felix’s artistic news fits that ethos—he has been road-testing a handful of fresh mini-sketches inside Flashback Generation VHS, including “Rewind Warriors,” a kinetic duo scene that casts audience volunteers as co-conspirators, and “The Parent Lock,” a sly, modern coda that bridges clunky VCR menus with today’s labyrinthine passwords. These additions keep each performance alive and slightly different, making the Lyon date at Le Boui-Boui a snapshot of the show in motion rather than a fixed artifact. Our team fine-tunes sound and lighting to cradle his shift from anecdote to character to physical comedy, and the club’s cozy footprint ensures laughter travels like a wave, buoying the next beat. Whether you lived the tape era or discovered it through secondhand stories, you will find a shared language in Felix’s meticulous details: the grainy aura of a well-loved recording, the communal hush before a tape clicks, the choreography of fingers hovering over Stop and Record. This is stand-up that feels handcrafted—spooled by hand, so to speak—and our stage is ready to let every frame roll.