Emerging from a teenage comedy sketch written for Tanjong Katong Secondary School, he entered Singapore television in 1980 and spent two decades as a Mediacorp artiste, gaining fame through the cross-dressing characters Liang Po Po and Liang Xi Mei on the variety show Comedy Nite. Transitioning to film, he debuted with That One No Enough (1999) and built a string of successful franchises such as M…