[3] Teguh was born Kho Tjien Tiong in a Chinese Indonesian family in Klaten, Central Java, Dutch East Indies in 1926.
[4] It was in 1946 while he was working as a guitarist that he met his future first wife, Raden Ajeng Srimulat, who was already a popular Keroncong singer.
[4] In the early 1960s, the touring troupe was re-launched as Aneka Ria Srimulat, with a home stage in Jakarta and regular appearances in Surabaya, Surakarta, and Semarang.
[4] As the troupe became much larger a number of its actors became well-known comedians in their own right, including Johni Gudel, Edy Geyol, Herry Koko, Gepeng, and Dandempo, and they began to make regular television appearances.
[4] Many of their skits and appearances involved parodies of American and other foreign films, mixing low-class Javanese language humour with satires of serious content.