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

At Le Boui-Boui: Flashback Génération VHS comes to life

At Le Boui-Boui, we are delighted to welcome Félix Le Braz with Flashback Génération VHS, a joyfully analog plunge into the soft whirr of tapes, ghostly tracking lines, and the irresistible charm of family camcorders. Our intimate room in the heart of Lyon is built for this kind of time-traveling comedy: close enough for shared glances, quick enough for spontaneous call-and-response, and warm enough to feel like a living room screening. From the stage, Félix rewinds collective memory—Friday-night video-club rituals, oversized plastic cases, the stealthy pencil trick for reels, and the panic of a chewed-up cassette—turning each relic into a catalyst for stories that bounce between personal confession and communal nostalgia. He fuses stand-up, character work, and playful sound cues to re-create those unmistakable VHS textures, and the proximity of our space amplifies every callback and sonic gag, inviting the audience to be part of the process rather than distant spectators.

Félix Le Braz now: current creative momentum

What excites us most about presenting Flashback Génération VHS at Le Boui-Boui is how it taps into Félix Le Braz’s current artistic momentum. His writing is tightly edited yet flexible enough to welcome the room’s energy, and he leans into improvisation that feels native to smaller venues like ours. The show’s nostalgia isn’t a museum piece; it’s a mirror held up to today’s comedic ecosystem and the way jokes now circulate at the speed of a push notification. From our vantage point, you can hear his set wink at contemporary touchstones—the viral mechanics of LOL: Qui rit, sort!, the late-night mix-and-mingle of Le Late avec Alain Chabat, the unexpected long-form candor you find on Hot Ones France, or the live-stream looseness of Zen on Twitch—only for Félix to pull us back to a slower, fuzzier era when anticipation mattered and a punchline sometimes rode in on a bent tracking wheel. That contrast is the engine of his performance right now: a celebration of presence over algorithm, of room-to-room touring over faceless feeds, and of tactile humor that plays best when an audience breathes with the performer.

On our stage, the craft behind Flashback Génération VHS shows in the details. Félix composes with the acoustics, spreading laughter from the first rows to the back corners with pauses tailored to the room; he shapes beats around the “click” of an imaginary VCR door and choreographs light nods that mimic CRT flicker. The result is a live experience built on texture—4:3 memories recast in 16:9 realities—where viewers can compare their first taped concerts, late-night sitcom marathons, or the household drama of recording over a treasured holiday. We love that the show treats the audience as collaborators: Felix invites quick surveys on who remembers tracking wheels or SCART cables, bounces between Lyon’s own pop-cultural landmarks and the universal thrills of Saturday cartoons, and turns even a throwaway VHS sleeve into a running gag. In a room like Le Boui-Boui, those threads stay taut from start to finish, and the laughter lands with the physical immediacy that streaming can’t replicate. That’s why this date matters to us: it’s live comedy in its purest state, a shared reel of memory and invention powered by Félix Le Braz at full creative speed.