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

At Le Boui-Boui: Flashback Generation VHS arrives in Lyon

At Le Boui-Boui, we delight in welcoming performers who light up our intimate stage with personality, memory, and the kind of comic precision that resonates long after the applause fades. With Felix Le Braz and his show Flashback Generation VHS, our room becomes a time capsule where the analog fuzz of yesterday meets the quick wit of today. In this set, the comedian rummages through the living room cabinet of a whole generation: the family camcorder, the ritual of Saturday rentals, the instruction to “rewind before returning,” the legendary tracking lines that needed a gentle tap, and the awkward charm of home-recorded tapes. In our close-quarters setting, every side glance, beat of silence, and improvised tag lands with palpable warmth. Felix’s observational eye and affectionate character work bring to life the video-club clerk who knew your taste better than you did, the parent who never found the right input channel, and the friend who taped over a precious memory for a last-minute football match. The nostalgia is not just a souvenir; it’s a springboard for new jokes that speak to how we connect, share, and laugh in a world that once asked for patience while the tape loaded.

Felix Le Braz today: new material and a retro sprint

This season, Felix Le Braz is pushing Flashback Generation VHS forward with sharpened writing, quick pivots, and a buoyant stage rhythm that our audience at Le Boui-Boui can feel from the first riff. He’s been premiering brand-new bits within the show—compact, punchy moments that act like little cassettes inside the cassette. Expect fresh sketches like “Be Kind, Rewind,” a whirlwind dive into the unspoken code of tape etiquette; “Tracking Lines,” a physical-comedy sequence about the beautiful imperfection of analog images; and “Tape Heads,” where he embodies the friends, siblings, and self-proclaimed archivists who curated entire childhoods with a pause button. He also threads in fast-paced mini-chronicles—“Video Club Etiquette” and “Minitel After Dark”—to explore how finding entertainment once meant maps, memory, and a little mystery. From our vantage point backstage, we can see how the show breathes: Felix balances the familiar and the unexpected, folding in audience reactions, testing fresh tags, and fine-tuning transitions so that each call-back detonates perfectly in our room. The pacing is lively, the references precise but never exclusionary, and the energy unmistakably present-tense.

Le Boui-Boui thrives on comedy that feels handcrafted for the night you attend, and Flashback Generation VHS fits that bill. Felix Le Braz turns shared artifacts into living, laughing conversations—inviting you to remember the jolt of popping the case, the tactile joy of labels and stickers, and the communal thrill of a screening that depended on whoever controlled the remote. He bridges eras with nimble comedic craft: one moment he’s reenacting a frantic family hunt for the right SCART channel, the next he’s satirizing the modern scroll with the patience of someone who grew up waiting for the tape to rewind. The set often slips into playful audience interaction—think quick-fire “Name That Jingle” challenges or cheeky reenactments of those iconic countdown idents—without breaking the narrative thread. On our stage, every beat is close enough to touch, and every laugh circles back to the core of this artist’s current work: celebrating the analog rituals that taught us to pause, pay attention, and revel in the imperfect. It’s a show that feels tailor-made for Lyon’s curious, quick-to-laugh crowds, and our team is proud to host a comedian whose present momentum is powered by the glorious hum of a spinning cassette wheel.