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

Le Boui-Boui welcomes Flashback Generation VHS: comedy that rewinds the tape

At Le Boui-Boui in Lyon, we love nights when the room becomes a time capsule, and that is precisely what happens when Félix Le Braz brings Flashback Generation VHS to our stage. In our intimate, low-lit space, the laughter doesn’t just travel; it ricochets between performer and audience, creating the kind of shared nostalgia you can almost touch. Flashback Generation VHS digs into the tactile memories of the pre-streaming era—video clubs with handwritten labels, the soft snow of a mis-tracked image, the ritual of Saturday-night “record and pause”—and turns them into fresh, contemporary comedy. This is not a museum piece; it’s a living, breathing set that reconnects us with an analog childhood while speaking the brisk language of today. From the first beat, Félix plays with the room like an old friend rifling through your tape drawer, teasing out VHS-era rites of passage—the cousin with a camcorder, the family tape you should never have rewound over, the schoolyard swap economy—and refracting them through his sharp eye for detail. The result is a joyous, high-energy evening tailor-made for Le Boui-Boui’s close-up magic.

Félix Le Braz right now: new bits, new rhythms, and a crowd-first approach

What excites us most about hosting Félix Le Braz at Le Boui-Boui is the way his current work hums with the momentum of a comic in full flight. Flashback Generation VHS is his newest creation, and it comes packed with freshly tuned material, tight transitions, and playful set pieces that he has been honing in recent months. Expect recurring bits that he frames like miniature home-movie reels: “Be Kind Rewind,” a sprint through the social etiquette of the video-club counter; “Tracking Lines,” a riff that turns onstage glitches into running gags; “Minitel Blind Date,” which reimagines early online life with a wicked modern twist; “Tape Eater,” a physical-comedy sequence about the VCR that devours your favorite cassette; and “Walkman Warriors,” a crowd-pleasing ode to tangled headphones and street-soundtracks. These titles aren’t just labels; they’re anchors for the show’s rhythm, giving the audience a map through his nostalgia universe. Even when Félix shifts gears into quick-fire observational punchlines, he keeps circling back to those set pieces, amplifying the callback laughs and knitting the room together. It’s that live-wire, audience-aware craftsmanship that fits our venue so well.

On our side of the lights, we’ve built the night to heighten that feeling of “pop-in, press play, and enjoy.” The scale of Le Boui-Boui means you see the micro-expressions—every raised eyebrow when the “tracking” knob fails, every slow-motion mime of a cassette reluctantly ejecting—and those details power the chemistry. The sound design punctuates the stories with familiar stings and bleeps that will trigger instant recognition for anyone who ever stared at a CRT screen after school. Without spoiling surprises, look out for participatory moments that transform the crowd into a living chorus of theme-song fragments and ad jingles, a clever contrast to the quiet hush of anticipation when he cues a new “chapter.” Flashback Generation VHS is both a celebration and a send-up, warmly affectionate yet sharply observed, perfectly scaled for our room’s intimacy. Whether you’re a true tape-deck veteran or you only know VHS from thrift-shop shelves, Félix Le Braz makes the analog age feel present-tense here at Le Boui-Boui—immediate, interactive, and gloriously funny.