Greg Fleet @ the Sydney Comedy Festival
Valhalla Cinema Glebe, Sydney, 19 October 1999
by Shell

This was a performance of Greg's much loved show 'Thai Die'. The story of how Fleety was ripped off for over $4000, was kidnapped and had his life threatened with and axe.

I have seen an abridged version of this before but the full show was just awesome. You could just imagine Fleety telling this story to friends at parties and having them all say that he should do it as a show, the entire thing went for about 2 hours.

On a holiday in 1989 Greg Decided to go to Thailand because he had to go some where exotic and some where close. He was befriended by a Thai man that took him to dinner and showed him around Bangkok.

After meeting this guys family he sort of got sucked into this gambling scam, it is a very funny tale and you begin to think that Greg is quite stupid for being taken in by these people and then you get to the part where they threaten to kill him and you start to feel very very sorry for him!

So obviously, they didn't kill him right? A fact that Fleety kindly pointed out at the show. The second half was about his trip across the Thai -Burmese border to a camp for Student resistance fighters.

This is where the show sort of stopped being comedy and began to be quite serious and also when you realise that Fleety is not and idiot at all. The story of these students fighting in what they were wearing to Uni the day that they had to flee into the jungle to save themselves from massacre was a truly amazing story and one that Fleety obviously feels should be told.

I think that he has been doing this show for a long time and he knows it very well which makes it great, but on the other hand, you do get the sense that he might be somewhat tired of telling it. It was a great laugh though and something to do on a rainy Tuesday night.

I am so hooked on seeing live comedy now that I will have to go to the Melbourne Comedy Festival next year But if I am lucky, well if we are all lucky who live in Sydney, this years festival will have been a huge success and we will also get all the great comedians that go to Melbourne coming here at the next festival.