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

At Le Boui-Boui: Félix Le Braz brings Flashback Generation VHS to our stage

At Le Boui-Boui in Lyon, we are delighted to welcome Félix Le Braz with Flashback Generation VHS, a new live experience that fits our room like a glove. Our venue’s close-up acoustics and intimate sightlines amplify the playful, confessional energy of Félix’s storytelling, inviting you right into the warm, analog glow he recreates on stage. From the moment the lights dim, he dives into a tactile world of tape cassettes, clacking plastic cases, and the ritual of “please rewind,” using these artifacts as springboards for punchy observations about family rituals, first movie crushes, and the social life that used to orbit a neighborhood video store. In our black-box setting, every whisper, click, and improvised aside lands with precision, letting Félix thread quick-fire callbacks through the audience’s laughter and the gentle hiss of memory. Expect clever contrasts between the chunky charm of CRT screens and today’s endless scroll, as Félix explores how we consumed stories then versus now—how anticipation, scarcity, and glitches shaped a shared culture, and how those quirks still echo in our streaming-age habits. Without ever lapsing into lecture, he crafts a show that feels like rummaging a box of tapes with friends: funny, oddly tender, and constantly interrupted by that delicious urge to say, “Wait, you remember this too, right?” Among the recurring bits fans love to quote after the show—nicknamed in the lobby as “Le vidéoclub,” “Rembobiner s’il vous plaît,” and “Ligne de tracking”—the laughter keeps circling back to the way physical media made us meet, swap, argue, and bond. In our room, those shared laughs become the headliner.

Current momentum: a comedian tuned to today, with an eye on yesterday

Programming Flashback Generation VHS at Le Boui-Boui also means hosting a comedian in full stride. Félix Le Braz’s current momentum is driven by agile writing and a performer’s instinct for live rhythm: he pivots from razor-clean punchlines to elastic crowd work, letting the audience color the evening with their own VHS memories and first-screen obsessions. Recent clips from his sets have been buzzing online not because of shock value, but because he makes nostalgia feel contemporary; he’s quick to riff on the VHS-to-streaming leap by name-checking today’s media touchstones—Hot Ones France, Un Bon Moment, or even the podcast boom—showing how our habits have flipped while our need for communal stories hasn’t. He builds agile frames for that idea, slipping in micro-routines that audiences casually refer to as “La télé qui grésille” or “Le bouton pause,” where a tiny period detail blooms into an unexpectedly big, modern laugh. As a venue, we see how this approach thrives at Le Boui-Boui: the front row becomes a living time capsule, the back row another shelf in the old video aisle, and the whole room slowly turns into one long, shared rewind. For those who follow contemporary comedy, the show is firmly of the moment—smart, fast, and interactive—yet anchored in concrete textures: rental cards, cover art, clunky remotes, and the heartfelt panic of a late return. Félix takes those artifacts and composes a live mixtape of personal anecdotes, pop-culture nods, improvised tags, and finely tuned observations that reward attention. Night after night, what we hear in the foyer is the same refrain: people don’t just laugh—they reconnect with how they used to laugh. That’s the current of Flashback Generation VHS, and it’s exactly why we’re proud to have it on our stage at Le Boui-Boui.