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

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

At Le Boui-Boui, we delight in welcoming Félix Le Braz with his new show Flashback Génération VHS, a love letter to the analog years delivered with sharp, contemporary wit. In our intimate Lyon room—where every breath, glance, and punchline lands with precision—his stand-up becomes an immersive time machine. Félix maps out a universe of tracking lines, whirring tape decks, Friday-night video-store pilgrimages, and the collective rituals of family camcorders, while never losing sight of the present day. His performance blends brisk observational comedy, nimble character work, and quick-fire audience interactions that feel tailor-made for a space like ours. The show’s nostalgic engine powers a very current exploration of identity and memory, and our audiences respond to the way he spins personal stories into shared cultural flashbacks. Whether you grew up rewinding cassettes or discovered the era through clips and compilations, the joy here is universal: we watch him dig into the details—the clack of a VCR door, the panic of recording over a precious tape, the ingenuity of pre-Internet hacks—and we feel a whole era reappear, laugh by laugh, in the heart of Le Boui-Boui.

Current Momentum and Fresh Sketches

Programming Félix Le Braz at Le Boui-Boui comes at a perfect moment in his artistic trajectory, as Flashback Génération VHS gains word-of-mouth traction well beyond Lyon. We have followed his recent short-form material circulating on social platforms and in comedy lineups across France, where he road-tests ideas with a craftsman’s patience. The freshness of his voice shows up in sketches like Retour au Vidéoclub, Le Bouton REC, Mode Tracking, and Haute Vitesse Rembobinage, lively capsules that preview the textures and rhythms of this full-length set. These pieces crystallize what we see on our stage: an artist who fuses rapid-fire callbacks with finely observed period detail, then pivots to warm, contemporary self-mockery. From the vantage point of Le Boui-Boui, the appeal is obvious—his scenes play big in a small room. Those quick bits become living threads through the hour, letting him improvise with our crowd while keeping a clean narrative spine. For us as a venue, that balance is key: he delivers the unifying rush of a themed show while staying loose enough to respond to the room, which is precisely what our Lyon audiences love.

On the night, expect Félix to build a playful circuit between memory and immediacy, threading nostalgia through present-tense stand-up mechanics. He flips perspectives from childhood bedrooms to bustling video clubs, riffs on dubbing quirks and foreign-film voiceovers, and mines the comic tension of obsolete technology behaving like high drama. The set lives in the details—tape labels scrawled in rushed handwriting, family recordings interrupted by someone shouting “ne touche pas au bouton,” and the collective choreography of passing a remote control around the living room. In the flow of Flashback Génération VHS, he also weaves in segments such as Cassette Familiale and Rituels du Samedi Soir, nodding to the communal side of entertainment that our room recreates each night. At Le Boui-Boui, the acoustics, the proximity, and the attentive hush before a laugh all serve his timing; you can feel the energy accumulate as he circles back to earlier bits and lands them anew. For Lyon’s comedy lovers, it’s a chance to see an artist shaping a modern hour out of retro fragments, with a stagecraft that rewards careful listening and rewards, even more, the impulse to let yourself be carried away. This is exactly the kind of show our venue was built to host—intimate, inventive, and buzzing with the pleasure of a shared discovery.