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

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

At Le Boui-Boui, we take pride in presenting artists whose shows feel tailor-made for our intimate room, and Félix Le Braz arrives with precisely that sort of experience in Flashback Generation VHS. From our vantage point in the heart of Lyon’s comedy scene, we’ve watched audiences crave the warmth of live storytelling, and Félix brings it with the tactile joy of tape-era memories: the hiss of a cassette, the wonky tracking bar, the ritual of the video club membership card. On our stage, his conversational delivery, quick-fire callbacks, and physical comedy create the sensation of pulling a beloved tape from its plastic sleeve and pressing play together. He speaks fluently to those who grew up with cathode-ray glow and to younger spectators discovering the mythos of the 80s and 90s. The result is a shared cultural time travel that suits Le Boui-Boui’s proximity, where a raised eyebrow or a whispered aside ripples through the room. Félix continues to expand this show with new beats and topical tags, keeping each performance alive and responsive to the city he’s visiting—and in Lyon, that means a bespoke night crafted for our crowd.

What to expect from Flashback Generation VHS

Flashback Generation VHS plays like a home-movie marathon guided by a stand-up who grew up rewinding. Félix Le Braz mines the everyday rituals of the analog era—recording over a family wedding by mistake, blowing dust from a cartridge, the sacred duty of returning a tape on time—and transforms them into vivid, actable set pieces. Within our room’s close quarters, you’ll feel the crisp timing of his impressions, the clack of an imaginary VCR, and the slapstick of a stubborn SCART cable. He riffs on the gulf between then and now, peppering his nostalgia with wry nods to modern pop culture so the set never becomes a museum tour: expect contemporary references that wink at today’s formats and hits like LOL: Qui rit, sort!, Burger Quiz, Hot Ones, Popcorn, Zen, or even the nightly churn of Quotidien—name-checks that Félix folds into a larger question about how we watch, remember, and share. The show builds a collage of sketches-in-miniature: the video-store clerk as mythic gatekeeper, the family living room as festival, the ultimate Friday-night double feature invented with the audience. Le Boui-Boui’s compact stage becomes a time capsule where crowd energy acts as the tracking knob, sharpening the image with every laugh.

From our programmer’s seat, what excites us most is how current Félix Le Braz feels while staying resolutely personal. His artistic news is shaped by a rhythm of stage-first creation: short, agile bits tested in clubs, expanded into narrative runs, and threaded into the evolving spine of Flashback Generation VHS. Night after night, we see him refine taglines, punch up callbacks, and calibrate pacing with the precision of an editor hunched over two VCRs. This season, he’s doubling down on the interactivity that our venue thrives on—moments where the room co-authors a memory or supplies the exact cartoon theme that unlocks a reveal. That process echoes the way comedy is discovered today, and when Félix nods toward recent formats like Popcorn or Zen, it’s to reflect how audiences gather around screens the way they once gathered around a glowing tube TV. Hosting him at Le Boui-Boui, we’re opening our doors to an artist who treats each performance as a living tape: recorded in front of you, packed with Easter eggs, and destined to be “rewatched” in your mind on the walk home. For Lyon spectators, it’s a chance to catch a comedian in full creative motion, bringing a universal story about how we grew up watching—and how we still do.