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==Before radio==
==Before radio==
Before his radio career began in the late 1990s, Bouley was a stand-up comic<ref name="Kava, Brad 2010">Kava, Brad (8 Jan 2010), SF Radio Examiner</ref> and recording artist. His 1995 album, "Dance . . . Or Else," attracted widespread critical acclaim in the mainstream press while getting very little attention from the gay press.<ref name="allbusiness.com">http://www.allbusiness.com/retail-trade/miscellaneous-retail-retail-stores-not/4629919-1.html</ref><ref>LARRY FLICK
Before his radio career began in the late 1990s, Bouley was a stand-up comic<ref name="Kava, Brad 2010">Kava, Brad (8 Jan 2010), SF Radio Examiner</ref> and recording artist. His 1995 album, "Dance . . . Or Else," attracted critical notice in the mainstream press while getting very little attention from the [[GLBT]] press.<ref name="allbusiness.com">http://www.allbusiness.com/retail-trade/miscellaneous-retail-retail-stores-not/4629919-1.html</ref><ref>LARRY FLICK
Publication: Billboard
Publication: Billboard
Date: Saturday, June 27, 1998</ref> He later recorded the single "Don't Stop" with Steve Bronski and the single "I Am" with [[Jellybean Benitez]] as well as "Take Your Heartache Away", also on the Jellybean label.<ref name="allbusiness.com"/><ref>Openly Gay Artists Making Business Strides
Date: Saturday, June 27, 1998</ref> Following "Dance . . . Or Else," Bouley later recorded the single "Don't Stop" with Steve Bronski, a single, "I Am", with [[Jellybean Benitez]] and "Take Your Heartache Away", also on the Jellybean label.<ref name="allbusiness.com"/><ref>Openly Gay Artists Making Business Strides
By LARRY FLICK
By LARRY FLICK
Publication: Billboard
Publication: Billboard
Date: Saturday, June 27, 1998</ref> Several of Bouley's recording projects included Thea Austin, former lead singer of [[Snap!]]<ref>http://www.backstreetmemphis.com/theaaustin.htm</ref> Along with having his own graphic arts company, Karel also was a celebrity photographer, imaging celebrities such as Michael Jackson and Diana Ross.<ref>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/charles-karel-bouley/the-man-goes-through-the_b_221456.html</ref>
Date: Saturday, June 27, 1998</ref> Some of Bouley's recording projects included Thea Austin, former lead singer of [[Snap!]]<ref>http://www.backstreetmemphis.com/theaaustin.htm</ref> For a time, Bouley owned a graphic arts company, Bouley also worked as a celebrity photographer, imaging celebrities such as Michael Jackson and Diana Ross.<ref>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/charles-karel-bouley/the-man-goes-through-the_b_221456.html</ref>


==Radio talk show host==
==Radio talk show host==

Revision as of 21:48, 20 May 2010

Charles Karel Bouley, known on-the-air as Karel, is an American talk radio host. Bouley is best known [1] for his work on KGO in San Francisco, California and for his firing by KGO's station management for his on-air tirade and use of obscenity during a newscast. Prior to working for KGO, Bouley was one of the first openly gay hosts on a major market radio station, KFI in Los Angeles. Bouley is also an occasional columnist for The Advocate.com, Billboard Magazine[2] and a contributing blogger for The Huffington Post.[3]

Biography

Charles Raymond Bouley, Jr. was born November 7, 1962, in Miami Beach Florida,[4] to Charles Raymond Bouley Sr. and Rose Marie (née Tremblay) Bouley.[5] While attending Long Beach Poly High School, Bouley was editor of the high school's newspaper, "High Life." As a junior member of the press through his involvement with the paper, he was able to be included on press-only lists for premieres and openings in the Los Angeles area. With this type of press access, Bouley began attending stage productions and would then write reviews of those shows in his high school's newspaper. Eventually, Bouley went on to work for Billboard Magazine; his affiliation with the publication gave him access to music concerts and concert after-parties. Bouley states that this was the beginning his career in the entertainment industry.[6]

Before radio

Before his radio career began in the late 1990s, Bouley was a stand-up comic[7] and recording artist. His 1995 album, "Dance . . . Or Else," attracted critical notice in the mainstream press while getting very little attention from the GLBT press.[8][9] Following "Dance . . . Or Else," Bouley later recorded the single "Don't Stop" with Steve Bronski, a single, "I Am", with Jellybean Benitez and "Take Your Heartache Away", also on the Jellybean label.[8][10] Some of Bouley's recording projects included Thea Austin, former lead singer of Snap![11] For a time, Bouley owned a graphic arts company, Bouley also worked as a celebrity photographer, imaging celebrities such as Michael Jackson and Diana Ross.[12]

Radio talk show host

Bouley, along with his domestic partner, Andrew Howard, started in radio at KYPA Los Angeles in addition to Triangle Broadcasting based in Palm Springs, California. For the latter, the duo hosted a morning program, "Good Morning Gay America".[13]

Professionally known as "Karel and Andrew", in 1998 Bouley and Howard became the first openly gay radio talk-show hosts on a U.S. major-market radio station.[14] Hired for the afternoon drive slot at Los Angeles' KFI, the duo replaced KFI mainstays John Kobylt and Ken Chiampou.[15]. In March 2000, however, Bouley and Howard were bumped from the coveted afternoon-drive slot into the less-desirable evening-drive slot, being replaced by the then-newly-nationally syndicated Phil Hendrie Show, broadcast live from the West Coast. According to Andrew Howard, the move was made to accommodate Hendrie's live-broadcast, so it could be heard in an earlier, more advantageous spot on the East Coast.[16]

In May 2001, after twenty-two months on KFI, Bouley and Howard were replaced in KFI's evening-drive slot by Phil Hendrie and returning hosts Kobylt and Chiampou were again put into the afternoon drive slot.[17] David G. Hall, KFI's Director of Syndication was quoted at the time of the change as saying "KFI might still find a spot" for Bouley and Howard and stressed that the pair had not been terminated.[17] The station's programmers said they were preparing to return the duo on another Clear Channel station,[18] but the May 21st death of Howard from cardiac arrest due to arteroscelorotic cardiovascular disease changed that course.[15] After Howard's death, Bouley returned to KFI and hosted his own talk-show there until he was fired by station management in April, 2002.[19] Seven months later, Bouley was hired by San Francisco radio station KGO.[20]

Appellate court battle

Following Howard's untimely death, Bouley went on to file, and win, a malpractice suit as a domestic partner in a Los Angeles appellate court. This court victory effectively rewrote the wrongful death laws in California for domestic partners as well as making them retroactive.[21]

Television

Bouley also has appeared on television, having completed two seasons on TNN's Ultimate Revenge, directed by Woody Fraiser. He also wrote and directed a 60-second spot Barbarians At The Gate of Our Future. The spot won second place in the GLAAD "I Do" Marriage Equality project. He has filled in for Bill Press on his national show. He also regularly appears on CNN, MSNBC and Fox News as a guest on topical issues.[7]

Controversy

Ronald Reagan

On June 5, 2004, Bouley opened his weekend KGO program with a clip of The Wizard of Oz song, "Ding-Dong the Witch is Dead!" as a "tribute" to former President Ronald Reagan, who had died earlier that day. He went on to rant about Reagan during the first two hours of his show because of what he saw as the inaction of Reagan and his administration in the face of the developing AIDS crisis, propagating the perception it was a "gay disease." [22] The Monday following Reagan's death, Bouley was "castigated and panned" by listeners in addition to being strongly reprimanded by KGO management. He later apologized on the air, not for what he said, but for choosing to air his comments the same day as the former president's death.[22] He later included an open letter of apology to Nancy Reagan in his book You Can't Say That.

Tony Snow

On March 27, 2007, Bouley wrote the following for the online The Huffington Post, regarding reports that White House spokesman Tony Snow had developed colon cancer: "I hear about Tony Snow and say to myself, well, stand up every day, lie to the American people at the behest of your dictator-esque boss and well, how could a cancer not grow in you?...I know, it's horrible. I admit it. I don't wish anyone harm, even Tony Snow. And I do hope he recovers...and surrounds himself with friends and family for his journey. But in the back of my head there’s Justin Timberlake’s “What goes around, goes around, comes around, comes all the way back around, ya...” "[23][24] When controversy immediately ensued, Bouley replaced the draft and the inflammatory statements were removed with a notation [25] that it had been edited from the original version.[26][27] The original post, however, got wide airplay in print, on television, and the internet, compelling Huffington Post editor Roy Sekoff to speak out about the issue on The O'Reilly Factor shortly after the row.[28]

Joe The Plumber

When Bouley was hosting his weekend 7-10 p.m. call-in program on KGO Saturday, November 1, 2008, the sound engineer unintentionally failed to mute Bouley's microphone during the national news break. When a reference to Joe the Plumber came up during the news, Bouley was clearly heard on-air to yell: "Fuck goddamn Joe the goddamn mother-fucking Plumber! I want mother-fucking Joe the Plumber dead!"[29] Following the news break, Bouley apologized to the audience for his comments, explaining that his words were not intended to be aired. Bouley's comments earned him the title "pinhead," for the second time,[30] from Bill O'Reilly on Fox's The O'Reilly Factor on Monday, Nov. 3, 2008. Bouley posted on his website Nov. 4, 2008, that he had been "suspended pending review from KGO" and as of Nov. 5, 2008, his profile and blog on KGO's website were removed. On Nov. 6, 2008, KGO host Ronn Owens confirmed on-air that Bouley had been suspended indefinitely[31]. KGO issued a news release on the afternoon of November 11, 2008 stating that he had, indeed, been fired.[32] Bouley stated on Nov. 11, 2008 via the blog on his web site that he had been fired from KGO.[33] Bouley stated on November 11, 2008 on his own website blog that he takes responsibility for the incident but "[it's] not my fault", blaming the newly-hired KGO engineer instead.[34] Bouley then went on to blame KGO for his remarks being aired in Brad Kava's November 11, 2008 column in the S.F. Radio Examiner where he stated, "Weekends are cheap and they were using a cheap engineer for my show...[I] shouldn't have had an inexperienced engineer for my show, which is done remotely, and in which the host doesn't have an on/off switch on his mic. They put an inexperienced driver in the seat and the show crashed."[35]

Current life

Since he left KGO, Bouley has been doing stand-up comedy and talk-radio on large and small-market stations. In March, 2009, Bouley was hired by San Francisco's KNGY[36] as well as KRXA in Monterey, California.[37] In June 2009, Bouley's show on KNGY was cancelled due to the station's budget difficulties and insufficient ratings, shortly before the station went bankrupt.[38] In January 2010, Bouley was hired by KKGN, San Francisco;[39] with the latter two-hours of the show also broadcast on KUDO in Anchorage, Alaska [40] and on KYNS, San Luis Obispo.[41] In May 2010, KJRB in Spokane, Washington joined the line up.[42] Since December, 2008, Bouley has been performing stand-up comedy in the Rrazz Room at the Hotel Nikko[43] and Cobb's Comedy Club, both in San Francisco.[44] He has recently been seen performing at The Comedy Store in Los Angeles and The Laugh Factory in Long Beach, California,[7] where he currently resides.

References

  1. ^ http://articles.sfgate.com/2010-02-07/entertainment/17847968_1_michael-savage-air-america-randi-rhodes/2
  2. ^ http://books.google.com/books?id=yQ0EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA16&dq=billboard,+karel+bouley&as_pt=MAGAZINES&cd=5#v=onepage&q=billboard%2C%20karel%20bouley&f=false
  3. ^ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/charles-karel-bouley/im-afraid_b_133804.html
  4. ^ http://akas.imdb.es/name/nm1693994/bio
  5. ^ http://www.mylife.com/people-search/b/
  6. ^ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/charles-karel-bouley/one-smart-blonde_b_260382.html
  7. ^ a b c Kava, Brad (8 Jan 2010), SF Radio Examiner
  8. ^ a b http://www.allbusiness.com/retail-trade/miscellaneous-retail-retail-stores-not/4629919-1.html
  9. ^ LARRY FLICK Publication: Billboard Date: Saturday, June 27, 1998
  10. ^ Openly Gay Artists Making Business Strides By LARRY FLICK Publication: Billboard Date: Saturday, June 27, 1998
  11. ^ http://www.backstreetmemphis.com/theaaustin.htm
  12. ^ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/charles-karel-bouley/the-man-goes-through-the_b_221456.html
  13. ^ Anthony, James (1999-05-11). "Queering rush-hour radio - openly gay radio talk show in Los Angeles, CA, hosted by Karel and Andrew", The Advocate.
  14. ^ http://articles.latimes.com/2000/jul/14/entertainment/ca-52655?pg=2 LA Times - July 14, 2000
  15. ^ a b Moxley, Scott (27 Mar 2003). "Dr. Kooshian vs. the Gay Community". Retrieved 2009-09-17.
  16. ^ LA Times - July 14, 2000
  17. ^ a b LA Times - May 2, 2001
  18. ^ HalEisner.com
  19. ^ Bouley, Charles Karel (10 Oct 2006). "My Ground Zero of Fear". The Huffington Post. Retrieved 2009-09-16.
  20. ^ Huffinngton Post - My Ground Zero of Fear; October 10, 2006
  21. ^ Bronstad, Amanda (28 Mar 2005). ""Surviving partner in gay couple can sue after revision of law"". Retrieved 2009-09-16.
  22. ^ a b http://www.advocate.com/News/News_Features/Charles_Karel_Bouley_II__Who_deserves_respect_/
  23. ^ http://www.mrc.org/SpecialReports/2007/huffington/report0912_p1.asp
  24. ^ http://www.olbermannwatch.com/archives/2008/01/countdown_with_413.php
  25. ^ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/charles-karel-bouley/theres-all-types-of-cance_b_44369.html
  26. ^ Bouley, Charles Karel (2007-03-27). "There's All Types of Cancers Growing". The Huffington Post.
  27. ^ http://www.green960.com/pages/blog.html?feed=313154&article=6803026
  28. ^ "Video: Michelle versus HuffPo editor on O'Reilly". Hot Air. 2007-03-30.
  29. ^ http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/30/PKO7147PF1.DTL
  30. ^ http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,446586,00.html
  31. ^ "Ronn Owens Program". 2008-11-06. {{cite episode}}: Missing or empty |series= (help)
  32. ^ Bouley, Charles Karel (2008-11-11). "KGO Talk Host Karel Fired". Retrieved 2008-11-18.
  33. ^ Bouley, Charles Karel (2008-11-11). "Fired". Retrieved 2008-11-11.
  34. ^ [1]
  35. ^ Kava, Brad (2008-11-11). "Karel and engineer fired in one-paragraph e-mail and three-minute phone call". Retrieved 2008-12-06.
  36. ^ http://www.free-press-release.com/news/200902/1235589337.html
  37. ^ [2]
  38. ^ http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/lieberman/detail?blogid=70&entry_id=42499
  39. ^ http://sfppc.blogspot.com/2010/01/kkgn-green-960-hires-karel-for.html
  40. ^ http://www.kudo1080.com/staff.asp
  41. ^ http://calcoastnews.com/2010/02/kyns-1340-signs-up-controversial-gay-talk-show-host/
  42. ^ http://www.790thefan.com/default.asp?pid=5068
  43. ^ Kava, Brad (18 Nov 2008). "Fired Radio Host Karel Back in San Francisco--With a Standup Comedy Act". Retrieved 2009-09-19.
  44. ^ http://www.sfbg.com/blogs/pixel_vision/2009/11/bruce_vilanch_karel_and_nico_s.html
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