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By Ed Walsh, SF Examiner

Charles Karel Bouley, aka Karel, does not disappoint at
Hotel Nikko Rrazz Room

Karel's very entertaining stand-up performance at the Hotel
Nikko's Rrazz Room in San Francisco on Monday night, July
25, was a little like is radio show except much more profane
and even less politically correct than his often politically
incorrect KGO talk show.

Near the start of his nearly two-hour show, Charles Karel
Bouley, who goes by Karel, warned the audience of the game
rules.

"This is a conversation, I talk and you listen," he said, and later
warned the audience of his language.

"If you can't take all the profanity… what the f—k, you paid
your money," he said. "Get up and leave.".

About 100 people had gathered in the intimate Rrazz Room
and they were from the wide demographic group that
comprises Karel's listeners. People who looked like they were
barely drinking age to the elderly seemed to equally enjoy the
show. Just about every ethnic group was represented.
Karel talked about his financial struggles after he was fired for
cussing out the political figure Joe the Plumber when his studio
mic should have been turned off. That happened three years
ago and KGO rehired him in March to host the 7-10 p.m.
weekend slot. He can also be heard Monday-Friday on six
other stations around the country.

Karel said he would be filing for bankruptcy to get out of debt
and there was clearly no love lost between him and his bank.
"F—k Wells Fargo Bank," he said to cheers of the audience.

Karel told this reporter in an article for the Bay Area Reporter
that he doesn't know what he is going to say on stage ahead
of time. Indeed, much of his humor was very topical,
sometimes serious but with a dash of ironic humor.
The radio host noted the death of Amy Winehouse over the
weekend and named, with some suggestions from the
audience, all the artists who died young through their own selfdestructive
actions. He said it would be shocking and probably
disappointing to Winehouse herself if she died from a cause
other than drugs.

"I hope when they do a blood test that they find 99% of it
heroin, 1% methamphetamine in an alcohol base," Karel said.
The radio host talked about the bombing and shootings in
Oslo, Norway, and the attractiveness of the confessed suspect
Anders Behring Breivik.
"He's kind of cute, I would have f—ked him,"
Karel noted that even cannibal serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer was
attractive in some his photos.
"I would make a heck of a rump roast," Karel said referring his
extra pounds but he added that Dahmer would likely take a
look at him and say, "He's too much work."

Karel's sharpest barbs were directed to right-wing politicians.
His favorite targets were Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann
and Speaker of the House John Boehner
Karel questioned the sexuality of Bachmann's husband Dr.
Marcus Bachmann who once called gays barbaric.
"When someone can make me look butch they are either gay or
should be," Karel told the crowd.
The host also joked about John Boehner's orange fake tanning
cream complexion and wondered who in his circle was telling
him that it looked natural.

Karel blasted former president George W. Bush and his VP
Dick Cheney for being "war criminals" and he questioned why
we invaded oil-rich Iraq but are not benefiting from the oil and
are still paying high gas prices.

"It's like a guy with a harem paying for a hooker," he said.
At the end of his performance, Karel thanked the audience for
attending and signed greeted fans as they left the room. He
was also selling and signing copies of his new book, "Shouting
at Windmills."