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

Felix Le Braz at Le Boui-Boui

At Le Boui-Boui in Lyon, we are delighted to welcome Felix Le Braz with his new one-man show, Flashback Generation VHS, a riotous and affectionate deep-dive into the analog age that shaped so many of our collective memories. From our vantage point as a neighborhood stage known for intimacy and immediacy, this is precisely the kind of project that comes alive in our room: a comedian up close, in full command of timing, riffing on the glow of cathode rays, the hiss of magnetic tape, and the rituals of a Friday night at the video store. Felix folds these details into stories that feel both personal and communal, turning nostalgia into something playful, sharp, and surprisingly revealing. Our team has tailored the lighting and sound for a show that thrives on texture—quick cuts of audio, mock trailers, and nimble improvisations—so every wink, sound cue, and rewind gag lands with crisp precision for the Le Boui-Boui audience.

Inside Flashback Generation VHS

Felix Le Braz arrives with real creative momentum, and Flashback Generation VHS is the freshest snapshot of his current comedic voice. The hour we host at Le Boui-Boui is built on fast pivots and crowd-minded storytelling, a style he has been refining across clubs and small theaters before bringing it to our Lyon stage. As a venue, we love how clearly he structures the ride: there are tight observational runs, character flips, and punchy callbacks that accumulate like labels on a well-loved cassette spine. In our program notes, we’ve flagged standout beats like “VHS vs. Streaming,” “Le Vidéoclub,” and “Camcorder Confessions,” which showcase his knack for turning tactile props and cultural touchstones into living, breathing characters. The writing is new, the timing is elastic, and his rapport feels made for a room like ours—where laughter ricochets and the smallest facial tic plays like a revelation. It’s an artist mid-stride, generous with the audience and relentless with the jokes.

Presenting this show at Le Boui-Boui means leaning into everything our space does best: proximity, precision, and pace. Felix Le Braz uses that closeness to pull you right into a home-movie frame, slipping between the kid on the living-room carpet and the adult who can’t quite let go of the magic of rewind. Expect playful misdirection, analog sound bites, mock “making-of” detours, and audience moments that mirror the communal feel of a neighborhood video shop. We’ve seen how audiences—those who grew up tracking lines out of their tapes and those who only know them through memes—meet halfway in laughter. That warm, intergenerational energy is exactly what fuels Flashback Generation VHS here. With our technical crew syncing quick-fire cues to his onstage rhythm, the show becomes a compact, cinematic experience that spotlights Felix’s current artistic groove: humorous, affectionate, and just self-aware enough to make you realize that, for all our streaming convenience, nothing quite replaces the joy of pressing play together in the same room.