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

Le Boui-Boui presents Felix Le Braz in Flashback Generation VHS

From our vantage point at Le Boui-Boui, we love nights that feel tailor-made for our intimate stage, and Felix Le Braz brings exactly that with Flashback Generation VHS. Our room thrives on storytelling, precision timing, and a performer who knows how to make every seat feel like the front row. Felix’s set is a warm, laugh-filled rewind: the grain of old videotapes, the clack of a cassette door, the ceremonious “Be kind, rewind” etiquette of a generation that shared movies in living rooms, not on algorithms. In Lyon, our audience is wonderfully quick to play along, and this is a show that invites participation—recognizing a theme tune, recalling the last time a magnetized tape betrayed you, admitting to a cherished videoclub membership card. Felix rides that collective memory with nimble stand-up, character snapshots, and a touch of physical comedy, while we fine-tune the light and sound to wrap the room in the glow of a tube TV. It’s nostalgia sharpened by modern wit, right where Le Boui-Boui does its best work.

Artistic momentum and the pulse of the set

Artistically, Felix Le Braz arrives at Le Boui-Boui in full creative motion, shaping a live experience that speaks to today while honoring the tactile pleasures of the past. What we hear in the room is a comedian who toggles between eras—spooling from videotapes to streaming queues—and puncturing the interface of modern pop culture with nods to recent phenomena. Expect topical references woven with crowd banter: he name-checks contemporary staples like LOL: Qui rit, sort!, Hot Ones France, Drag Race France, and Mask Singer, then flips them against the logic of the VHS age—where discovery lived on cardboard sleeves and handwritten notes. The rhythm is brisk but never rushed; Felix lets a memory breathe, then surprises you with a side-angle gag or a perfectly timed pause. We’ve watched him calibrate beats to the room, using the closeness of Le Boui-Boui to land confessional jokes, call-backs, and micro-impressions that simply hit harder when the performer is within arm’s reach. It’s a set designed for live electricity, built to evolve show by show, and we’re delighted to host that evolution here.

For this date at Le Boui-Boui, we stage Flashback Generation VHS with the stripped-down elegance it deserves: a lean setup that keeps the focus on Felix’s voice, gestures, and the playful soundscape of analog memories. Our team crafts a warm, cinematic hue on stage—a chiaroscuro that feels like the glow of a living room at 9 p.m.—and keeps the audio crisp enough to catch every whisper of a punchline. The comic throughline ties our audience together: dodgy tracking that needed a tap on the VCR, the blunt drama of recording over a family tape, the improbable heroism of a pencil rescuing a chewed cassette, Saturday mornings that smelled of cereal and felt like endless time. Felix relocates those moments to the present with quick detours through gaming nostalgia, low-fi music rituals, and the jittery etiquette of early tech. The result is a lively, shared rite of memory that’s sharply contemporary—built for Le Boui-Boui’s closeness, delivered by a performer who understands the thrill of hearing an entire room laugh as one before he presses play again.