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

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

At Le Boui-Boui in Lyon, we are delighted to welcome Felix Le Braz with Flashback Generation VHS, a stand-up time capsule tailor-made for our intimate room and its appetite for sharp, playful storytelling. From the very first beats of the evening, Felix invites our audience to “rewind” to a world of cassettes, chunky remote controls, and the ritual of the neighborhood video store, then toggles deftly back to today’s hyper-connected present. The closeness of our stage to the seats turns his finely observed nostalgia into a shared conversation, where a raised eyebrow or a half-whispered aside lands as crisply as a punchline. In our theatre’s warm, brick-and-laughs atmosphere, his quick-fire callbacks and audience-aware timing have the space to breathe, while the room’s energy hands him new angles to pounce on. It’s the kind of night our venue was designed for: a comedian with a fully formed comic universe, a crowd eager to compare memories, and an hour that crackles with in-the-moment discovery.

A fresh, nostalgic hour, tuned for today’s comedy lovers

Flashback Generation VHS is more than a retro collage; it’s a live examination of how we watched, waited, and wondered before the algorithm. Felix maps the sensory fabric of a pre-streaming youth—tracking lines, weekend tapes queued for recording, the bossy etiquette of “Be kind, rewind”—and spins it against today’s binge culture, where suggestions hit faster than we can choose. He bounces between punchy observational detours about family living rooms and the grand myths of the video club aisle, and then flips the lens toward the present: the pace of clips, comment sections, and the instant virality of a joke. In the room, our audience hears the laughter roll like a wave as he contrasts long-form anticipation with the quick-hit rush of modern formats and references contemporary programs such as LOL: Qui rit, sort!, Hot Ones France, and Quotidien to underscore how comedy and pop media now thrive in short bursts, remixes, and crossovers. The result is a nimble hour that keeps everyone—analog hearts and digital natives—on the same, joyous frequency.

Hosting Felix Le Braz at Le Boui-Boui is also the chance to spotlight an artist in full creative motion. This new set has the agile feel of material honed in front of real crowds, with rhythms that let Lyon’s laughter steer the next tag or twist. While Flashback Generation VHS celebrates the textures of the 80s and 90s, Felix keeps the evening firmly anchored in the current moment: he riffs on the way we sample culture now, folds in nods to recent programs like LOL: Qui rit, sort!, Hot Ones France, and Drag Race France, and turns audience memories into springboards for improvised detours. As a venue that champions stand-up’s live spark, we love how he builds a bridge between generations—one side recalling the patience of rewinding, the other fluent in swipes and streams—and invites both to meet in the laughter of recognition. If you treasure the ritual of discovering a new voice up close, Flashback Generation VHS at Le Boui-Boui offers exactly that: a comedian sharpening a fresh hour in the best possible laboratory—a full house, a tight stage, and the collective hum of a city ready to laugh.