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

Félix Le Braz brings Flashback Generation VHS to Le Boui-Boui

At Le Boui-Boui, we take special pride in welcoming performers whose craft shines brightest in an intimate room, and Félix Le Braz fits that spirit perfectly with Flashback Generation VHS. From our vantage point in the wings, his blend of quick-fire stand-up, character-driven storytelling, and playful audience asides lands with a warmth that only a close-up setting can deliver. The show’s premise is a joyful rewind to a pre-streaming world, where tapes had to be rewound, gadgets clicked and whirred, and family memories were captured with clunky camcorders. That nostalgia is never static: Félix keeps it dynamic, bouncing from personal anecdotes to sharply observed cultural snapshots, finding laughter in the shared grammar of a generation raised on video clubs, weekend cartoons, and the hiss of magnetic tape. At Le Boui-Boui, the proximity intensifies every beat: the telltale scrunch of a facial expression, the sideways glance, the breath before a punchline. It’s a format that lets the jokes feel handcrafted for the room, and it’s exactly why we are thrilled to host him.

A night of stand-up, storytelling, and analog nostalgia

From the first notes of the opening cue, Flashback Generation VHS unfolds like a mixtape of memories. Félix is agile on stage, using sound cues and physicality to resurrect the rituals of the era: loading a cassette, battling tracking lines, navigating the living room hierarchy of who controlled the remote. His set moves with a rhythm that feels both improvisational and meticulously scored, and he leans into the crowd’s energy to tease out generational in-jokes without ever leaving younger listeners behind. Recent bits he has been previewing under playful tags like “Rewind to Recess,” “Minitel Dating,” “Game Boy Blues,” and “Press Play to Continue” punctuate the night, each one anchoring a new line of attack—schoolyard legends, dial-up romance, pocket consoles smuggled into class, and the ritual of recording over something you definitely shouldn’t have. In our room, these sequences become call-and-response moments: a laugh crests, a memory clicks, and Félix steers the wave to its next break. The craftsmanship is evident in the transitions—how a throwaway aside about a VHS cover morphs into a full character sketch, or how a family road trip morphs into a crowd-wide chorus of recognition.

Programming Félix Le Braz at Le Boui-Boui this season felt natural because his current momentum is anchored in exactly the kind of living, breathing stand-up that thrives here. Night after night, he refines fresh material, folds in new beat drops, and road-tests callbacks until they feel inevitable. That evolving spirit is front and center in Flashback Generation VHS: the show is built like a time capsule you can open from any angle, and yet it stays present-tense, attentive to the audience in front of him. We love watching him thread smaller motifs—video club membership cards, the suspense of recording a late-night film, the ritual of labeling tapes—into bigger stories that burst into the room, not just the era. Regulars at Le Boui-Boui know how our setup sharpens those moments: a stage close enough to catch every wink, acoustics that carry the laughter back to the performer, and a layout that turns strangers into co-conspirators. Félix amplifies that intimacy with crowd-aware beats like “Video Club Warriors” and “Dial-Up Dreams,” allowing the audience to color in their own details. It’s the kind of session where you’ll leave convinced you remembered another joke yourself—because in our room, the show plays not only on stage but in the shared memory it reawakens.