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

Le Boui-Boui welcomes Félix Le Braz

At Le Boui-Boui in Lyon, we love nights when the room itself seems to hum with recognition, and that’s exactly the atmosphere Félix Le Braz brings with Flashback Generation VHS. From the moment he steps onto our intimate stage, the mood shifts into a warm, shared memory: the glow of cathode-ray screens, the stubborn “tracking” snow that haunted home recordings, the rituals of the video club, and the thrill of pressing Record at the exact second your favorite program started. He builds a friendly complicity with the audience, weaving crowd interaction into stories about growing up with tapes, hand-labeled cassettes, and the pop culture that stamped a generation. The cadence is pure stand-up—quick, precise, generous—yet he nudges it toward sketch territory with characters, sound cues, and a sense of playful stagecraft that suits our room perfectly. In Lyon, we’ve learned that nostalgia really sings when it’s specific, and Félix lands those specifics with relish: the clunk of a VCR door, the agony of taping over a childhood treasure, the family living room turned cinema. It all feels tailor-made for Le Boui-Boui’s close quarters, where every detail and aside lands within arm’s reach.

Artist news and the spirit of Flashback Generation VHS

Félix Le Braz arrives at Le Boui-Boui with the momentum of a comic refining a signature hour. The current season finds him sharpening the timing of Flashback Generation VHS, layering new observations about the early internet, after-school TV blocks, and the music-video era into the bedrock of his show. In a French stand-up scene energized by programs such as Paname Comedy Club and Jamel Comedy Club, he stakes out his own lane by turning the analog quirks of the past into living, breathing stage moments. Rather than offering a museum of references, he frames the VHS age as a set of instincts—how we waited, rewound, and shared—that still shape us, even in an on-demand world. The result is a performance that plays like a conversation between generations: parents laughing at the memory of scrambled channels, younger audience members delighted by the “archaeology” of a cassette case. What stands out, from our vantage point, is Félix’s gentle authority as a host: he curates the evening with the ease of someone who knows exactly when to let a silence breathe and when to spring a punchline. Each beat serves the room, and our room rewards that kind of craft.

On our stage, Flashback Generation VHS unfolds as a guided tour through tactile memories and everyday epics—the Friday-night dash to the video store, the sacred shelf where tapes were kept, the makeshift mixtapes of comedy and cartoons that entire families passed around. Félix Le Braz pivots gracefully between observational riffs and miniature sketches; he’s equally at home teasing out the social rules of lending tapes as he is embodying the exasperated parent or the neighborhood cinephile who always had an opinion. For Le Boui-Boui audiences, it’s a joy to watch him bridge personal recollection and collective culture without leaning on mere nostalgia. He digs for the human mechanics underneath: patience, improvisation, the way we learned to pay attention by waiting for what we loved. That’s why the show lands with anyone, VHS child or not. The rhythms are tight but unhurried, and the writing is attentive to the small, resonant details that make stories feel lived-in. In Lyon, we’ve seen how that combination—precision, play, and a genuine curiosity about people—turns a night out into a shared time capsule. If you’re joining us at Le Boui-Boui, expect laughter you’ll carry home like a tape worth rewinding.