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

Félix Le Braz at Le Boui-Boui: welcoming Flashback Génération VHS

At Le Boui-Boui in Lyon, we love opening our stage to artists who turn a room into a time machine, and Félix Le Braz does exactly that with Flashback Génération VHS. From the first minutes, his stand-up and sketch sensibility taps into the tactile magic of the cassette era—tracking lines, whirring decks, sticker labels and all—while speaking directly to today’s audience. In our intimate space, his crowd work lands with playful precision, and the physicality of his humor shines: a mock fast-forward here, a stuttered pause there, the audible clunk of a mental “eject.” The show is an affectionate, high-energy deep dive into how we watched, rewound, and shared culture before streams and swipes, but it never feels like a museum tour. Félix uses nostalgia as a living engine: the way a camcorder turned family life into cinema, the way a Friday-night rental forged friendships, the way a preview trailer could rewrite an entire weekend. It’s a joyful, quick-thinking evening that feels tailor-made for Le Boui-Boui’s close-up setting and the Lyon audiences who thrive on sharp, character-driven comedy.

Current artistic momentum: new material, fresh rhythms, live electricity

Félix Le Braz arrives with unmistakable momentum. In recent months he has honed new beats, tightened transitions, and fine-tuned the musicality of his punchlines—work that truly blossoms in a room like ours. Flashback Génération VHS pinballs between sharply observed micro-sketches and playful audience prompts, weaving in the brisk rhythm contemporary viewers recognize from recent French comedy formats such as LOL: Qui rit, sort! and Le Flambeau. He even toys with the “stress-test interview” style popularized by Hot Ones France, and the live-streamed spontaneity many fans associate with Zen, reframing them through the warm, glitchy lens of analog culture. Far from a gimmick, the retro angle gives Félix a fresh way to talk about identity, memory, and how technology scripts our social lives. In our venue, you’ll catch the subtle craft: the whispered “tape hiss” he reproduces vocally, the quick pantomime of a jammed cassette, the sly fake menu screen he conjures with nothing but posture and sound. It’s contemporary stand-up in structure, but it bursts into theatricality at just the right moments, transforming the stage into a living shelf of home-made epics and pirated treasures.

As hosts, we’ve seen how crowds light up when Félix maps everyday life onto the rituals of the VHS age: dating rendered as a clacky remote-control search, office politics as a temperamental VCR that only plays nice when no one is watching, friendships measured in the generosity of someone who remembers to rewind. The laughter at Le Boui-Boui isn’t just about recognition; it’s about discovery, because Félix keeps surprising the room with nimble shifts—from observational riffs to tiny narrative vignettes to almost musical crescendos of onomatopoeia. The show’s architecture thrives on intimacy: he invites you into the frame, pauses for the “tracking” to settle, then slams into a crystal-clear image of the present. Whether you grew up blowing dust from cassette sleeves or you’ve only known progress bars and autoplay, the evening collapses the gap between eras. For us, hosting this date means spotlighting a comedian who crafts new material with care and delivers it with live-wire warmth, reminding Lyon that great stand-up is both meticulously edited and gloriously unspooled in the moment—right here, at Le Boui-Boui.