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

Félix Le Braz at Le Boui-Boui

At Le Boui-Boui in Lyon, we love artists who turn a room into a living memory, and that is precisely why we are thrilled to welcome Félix Le Braz with Flashback Generation VHS. From our stage’s intimate vantage point, Félix’s kinetic storytelling, elastic facial expressions, and sharp sense of cultural observation feel tailor‑made for our audience. This new date adds to the artist’s busy creative moment, as he develops his VHS‑era deep dive into a rich gallery of characters—video‑store clerks, TV hosts, overprotective parents, and that one friend who never returns a tape on time. In recent months he has been sharing compact, crowd‑pleasing bits that echo the show’s spirit, including sketches like “Rembobinage Express,” “Le Club Vidéo du Mercredi,” and “Mode Lecture/Pause,” which our patrons have been quoting in the foyer even before the lights go down. Expect a night that feels both warmly recognizable and gleefully unexpected, as Félix revisits the analog rituals that raised a generation—with the quick wit and warmth that make him such a natural fit for Le Boui-Boui.

Inside Flashback Generation VHS

Flashback Generation VHS turns our black‑box theatre into a retro lounge where the glow of cathode‑ray memories meets the immediacy of stand‑up. Félix plays with the aesthetics of tapes—tracking lines, clunky remotes, the suspense of an unlabelled cassette—to build laughter from a tactile past. He riffs on Saturday‑night rentals, home‑recorded jingles, and the household negotiations around the “record” button, while slipping into characters so vivid you’ll swear you’ve met them in the queue at your neighborhood vidéoclub. The show unfolds like a mixtape, complete with signature beats and recurring motifs, with set pieces such as “Défi Tracking,” “Séance du Vendredi Soir,” and “Anti‑spoiler en VF.” In our snug room, every glance and aside lands; the rhythm between audience and performer is immediate, allowing Félix to improvise, rewind, and fast‑forward right along with the crowd. It’s nostalgia, yes, but never sentimental: he uses the VHS toolkit to decode how we watched, waited, and shared stories—then flips it into razor‑bright, present‑tense comedy.

As a venue, we have a front‑row view of Félix Le Braz’s current artistic momentum. He’s refining new beats onstage and online, folding them into Flashback Generation VHS so each performance feels alive and slightly different, like a treasured tape passed among friends. Our audience can expect fresh wedges of material that have been quietly building buzz, notably “Notice d’Utilisation Perdue,” “Auto‑Reverse,” and “La Cassette Fantôme,” which amplify the show’s playful universe. What excites us most is how seamlessly Félix adapts his pacing and crowd work to Le Boui-Boui’s intimate acoustics: the crisp timing of a whispered punchline, the shared silence before an eruption, the communal gasp when a memory clicks. Lyon’s curiosity for finely crafted stand‑up meets a performer who understands how to spin generational touchstones into new laughter. With Flashback Generation VHS on our stage, Félix Le Braz uses the analog past to create a distinctly live present—proof that the best comedy, like the best tapes, keeps rewarding you every time you hit play.