page_title: Charles Karel Bouley
hierarchical_section_title: Charles Karel Bouley
caption_attribution_description: English: American Singer, Entertainer, Radio Host, TV Personality and author, Karel
context_page_description: Charles Karel Bouley, known on-the-air as Karel, is an American entertainer, talk radio host, singer, TV personality, stage performer, journalist, and author. He began as a comic and vocalist with 1995's album "Dance...Or Else" and was signed to Jellybean Recordings under John "Jellybean" Benitez. While promoting a record, he was signed to do a radio show on KYPA Los Angeles called "Different After Dark." His life partner off-air, Andrew Howard became his co-host on-air and within two years the duo made history as the first openly gay radio talk show hosts on KFI in Los Angeles. in 1998. Howard, already suffering from AIDS, died suddenly of a blood clot in 2001.
  Karel stayed at KFI for almost two years. After a shift in management at KFI Karel and others were let go but he soon landed a show in San Francisco, the No. 4 Arbitron Market in the United States, on radio station KGO. He was fired from KGO in November 2008 when an engineer left his microphone open and his profane off-air comments about Joe the Plumber were broadcast live.
context_section_description: Charles Karel Bouley, known on-the-air as Karel (pronounced ka-REL), is an American entertainer, talk radio host, singer, TV personality, stage performer, journalist, and author.  He began as a comic and vocalist with 1995's album "Dance...Or Else" and was signed to Jellybean Recordings under John "Jellybean" Benitez. While promoting a record, he was signed to do a radio show on KYPA Los Angeles called "Different After Dark." His life partner off-air, Andrew Howard became his co-host on-air and within two years the duo made history as the first openly gay radio talk show hosts on KFI in Los Angeles. in 1998.  Howard, already suffering from AIDS, died suddenly of a blood clot in 2001.
  Karel stayed at KFI for almost two years. After a shift in management at KFI Karel and others were let go but he soon landed a show in San Francisco, the No. 4 Arbitron Market in the United States, on radio station KGO. He was fired from KGO in November 2008 when an engineer left his microphone open and his profane off-air comments about Joe the Plumber were broadcast live. Bouley was forced to re-invent himself, returning to stand-up comedy, writing for the HuffingtonPost and re-entering radio with a self-syndicated show heard first on Energy San Francisco and KRXA Monterey/Salinas/Santa Cruz.  The show aired five days a week, going nationwide after negotiating a satellite hookup with GCN, Genesis Communication Network. In November 2011, Karel returned to KGO, but he was again let go in February 2015 when Cumulus Media fired most of the staff. In 2008 he started podcasting and his show has expanded to TV and OTT. He continues to record as well.
  Bouley has been a writer since he was a teenager, for both local and national publications. He was a photographer and writer for the R&B Report, an entertainment reporter for Genre Magazine and The Advocate as well as a political columnist and blogger for Advocate.com. He was asked by Ariana Huffington on air to blog for her new site, the HuffingtonPost, where he has maintained a column for eight years running. for The Huffington Post, His editorials have appeared in The Wall Street Journal. He was also an editor and columnist for The Advocate.com, and a celebrity columnist and photographer for Billboard Magazine. His first book, "You Can't Say That" was published by Alyson Publications, his second, "Shouting at Windmills, BS From Bush to Obama" through Amazon. He continues working actively in all media.
caption: Known as '"Karel"'
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