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...born in Singapore, and knew he wanted to perform when, at 14, he wrote and acted in a comedy sketch for his secondary school. His family, as focused on Singaporean success as the characters in his film, thought it was a rotten idea. "For my generation, our parents only concentrated on normal life, making some money so you've got food to eat," Neo remembers. "Acting, performing-my parents just didn't know. I didn't know if I had talents either." First came a string of small stage roles Neo says he can barely remember. Then television beckoned. Singapore...
...wife used to be a trapeze artist. When I met her in Germany, she was the star of the show, because she was at that time the only woman in the world that could perform a triple somersault. I was a little clown at the beginning of his career. We've been married for 20 years. She doesn't fly any more, she misses...
...That is my job - to make you comfortable, and play around. You have to let them be themselves and play around that. By now most people have seen me perform and they know that I'm not going to pick on them or ridicule them. It's not about me being smart and them being stupid. It's about having fun together there in the ring, and that's very important. The people trust me, that we're going to have fun together and that's a great feeling...
...American audience another side of me that they never could have seen because in the Ringling show it always bing, bing, bing, bing, be funny, be fast, and make them scream and laugh, and Ringling gives you that. When you have 16,000 people screaming and laughing while you perform, oh my god, it's an unbelievable feeling. But I also have a one man show that I take around to theatres all over the place, and I enjoy that immensely...
...Kaleidascape you perform with one other clown, Pipo, but you have very different approaches to clowning...