Metuchen man to open comedy show
BY ENID WEISS Correspondent
Some people respond to middle age with purchases of sports cars, plastic surgery or luxury vacations. Andy Rehorn started doing standup comedy.

"I woke up at 45 and said, 'When am I going to do this?' " Rehorn said in a telephone interview with the Sentinel from his Metuchen home. "I really wanted to do this in my 20s."

Then he got a job at Verizon, got married and has been happy with his 30-year career there.

Rehorn attended several comedy classes and workshops in Manhattan and began performing during "open mic" nights at various local clubs. He's been at it for six years, and he said it took him more than four of those years to get comfortable on stage.

"My goal at this point is to make the people in front of me forget their day," Rehorn said. "I enjoy making people laugh … it's my view of the world."

Comedy is Rehorn's way of "pushing" himself. He writes his own material and said he still uses the first line he ever wrote. Rehorn describes his act as "edgy, but I don't go over the edge. I do human condition."

Friends of his wife, Kathy Rehorn, first approached him about performing at the St. Francis Cathedral School fundraiser, to be held Oct. 16. He then helped out by booking additional acts, too. Kathy Rehorn, who was Kathy Kangos before she got married, grew up in Metuchen.

Rehorn will appear with New York comedian Buddy Flip at a Night of Comedy at the St. Francis Cathedral School cafeteria in a fundraiser for the school on Oct. 16 at 8 p.m. Tickets are $15.F

lip combines musical comedy and standup into a one-man show that "casually addresses the bizarre and the silly things in life," Flip states on his website. He has appeared on HBO's "Comedy in the Park," Comedy Central and "Howard Stern on Demand," and has performed at casinos in Las Vegas and Atlantic City, including the Riviera and the Borgata. Flip also teaches at the OfficialWorkshop of The New York Comedy Club.

Also appearing will be comedians Andy Hayward and Randi Lupo. Both Flip and Hayward have performed with "Sesame Street Live." Lupo's self-proclaimed dry wit "is based upon her reallife experience with friends and family," she states in her blog. Hayward is a comedian and puppeteer.