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

Le Boui-Boui welcomes Félix Le Braz with Flashback Generation VHS

From our stage at Le Boui-Boui in Lyon, we are thrilled to host Félix Le Braz with his new creation, Flashback Generation VHS. Our intimate room is built for the quick-fire rhythms of stand-up, and his analog-fueled storytelling lands with a special warmth when the audience is close enough to catch the sparkle in his eye as he rewinds to the era of tracking lines, pencil-fixed cassettes, and Friday-night video rentals. This is a show that turns nostalgia into a live, communal experience: you hear the whirr of the old machine in his sound gags, you recognize the living-room glow he paints with words, and you feel the schoolyard bravado that once defined weekend viewing plans. At Le Boui-Boui, those micro-moments take on an unexpected emotional charge; Félix invites the room to remember their first taped concert or the tape that snapped at the worst possible time, and the laughter that follows is the laughter of recognition. With its blend of character work and autobiographical beats, Flashback Generation VHS finds the perfect scale here—close, vivid, and alive.

A timely artistic moment for an analog storyteller

Félix arrives in Lyon with momentum, and our team has watched this material sharpen in real time as he fine-tunes the writing and pacing for the road ahead. While building Flashback Generation VHS, he has been shaping compact, themed bits that are instantly legible to audiences who grew up between brick-and-mortar video clubs and the first wave of digitization. If you keep an eye on his recent work, you might have seen titles like “Appuyer sur Rec,” “Carte de Vidéo-Club,” and “Rebobinage Obligatoire,” short-form sketches that distill the core of his perspective: an affectionate, lightly irreverent look at the rituals of analog life and the way those rituals quietly bonded friends, siblings, and neighbors. That current creative streak is visible on stage at Le Boui-Boui, where he plays with timing, silence, and the tactile comedy of objects—clicks, clacks, and the tactile drama of a tape that won’t cooperate—using them as punchlines and setups in their own right. We love presenting comedians in the middle of a live evolution, and Félix is a clear case: a voice arriving fully formed yet still curious enough to test, stretch, and surprise.

What should you expect from Flashback Generation VHS in our room? A carefully engineered ride that swings between the giddy energy of Saturday-night TV memories and the sharpness of present-day observation. Félix sketches the world of the videoclub clerk who became everyone’s unlicensed curator; he channels the PE teacher who confiscated cassettes like contraband; he turns the school dance DJ into a full-blown character study, merciless and affectionate at once. The show is packed with crisp, self-contained bits—listen for “Tracking Lines,” a riff that turns the simple act of adjusting a picture into a metaphor for adulthood, and “Night of the Long Play,” where he threads together sleepovers, bootleg tapes, and the courage it took to press record over a parent’s precious cassette. He plays with crowd memories too, inviting quick audience prompts that send him down rabbit holes of ad jingles, theme songs, and once-ubiquitous catchphrases. In the close quarters of Le Boui-Boui, those spontaneous detours feel tailor-made for Lyon: the room becomes a chorus of shared recollections, and Félix, ever alert to opportunities, builds callbacks that loop back like a favorite tape. Whether you arrive fluent in the language of cassettes or you’re discovering the romance of analog for the first time, the show lands as both a celebration and a fresh, contemporary hour of stand-up—smart, generous, and unmistakably alive on our stage.