- Greg Hambrick
Staff Writer
Greg Hambrick writes for the Charleston City Paper. He covers the 2008 elections, City Hall, and other Charleston news. He likes musicals and comic books. He's not surprised that people don't vote when you have lazy, half-invested fingers pointing toward the polling place.
Category Archives: TV
Sure Sign of a Slow First Half to the Super Bowl…
February 4, 2008 – 10:38 am
… a report from the sideline on the bananas brought in to avoid cramps, complete with an aerial shot of said bananas sitting on a table.
Lost Predictions
February 1, 2008 – 5:55 pm
With just eight episodes of Lost in the can for this season, it’s not going to be a long one. But we’ll be posting a quick run down of our predictions about the current major mystery … which of the crash survivors make it off the island. NOTE: There are spoilers ahead:
Montel Gives FOX Hell on Heath Coverage
January 31, 2008 – 10:33 am
Montel Williams announced yesterday that he’s leaving the talk show business after 17 years. Last weekend, he gave Fox and Friends hell for the non-stop coverage of Heath Ledger’s death.
Charleston’s American Idol Wrap: Day 2
January 23, 2008 – 8:46 pm
Lindsey Goodman from Charleston Air Force Base is contestant number one. She grew up wanting to do two things: fly and sing. She’s good. They say no.
Ryan: “It’s time to send in the big guns.” By big guns, he means Aretha of New York and her absolutely huge boobs and Simon can’t take his […]
Charleston’s American Idol Wrap
January 23, 2008 – 7:56 pm
We’re getting ready for Charleston’s spotlight on American Idol.
Ryan notes we’re the friendliest city in America … and that’s even without Paula here 364 days out of the year.
You notice that none of the pictures of Charleston were from North Charleston — except for the cop.
Richard (pronounced Rish-Ard) Henderson is unemployed. Says he sounds like […]
“Daily” “Report” Return Tonight
January 7, 2008 – 10:45 am
The Daily Show and The Colbert Report are back tonight with new episodes (minus the writing staffs).
“We would like to return to work with our writers. If we cannot, we would like to express our ambivalence, but without our writers we are unable to express something as nuanced as ambivalence.” — Jon Stewart and Stephen […]
FOX News Has Kid Journalist Rethinking Career Plans
December 31, 2007 – 5:36 pm
Apparently FOX News was salivating at the idea that Chelsea Clinton had left a fourth grader’s campaign question unanswered because the little girl had a press badge. They sent a car after the girl and put her on TV in an effort to trash the former first daughter.
She has interviewed numerous candidates, and she approached […]
Colbert, S.C. Invade Time’s Top 500 List
December 31, 2007 – 1:22 pm
Time has an exhaustive collection of 50 Top 10 lists. South Carolina pops up for John McCain’s “Bomb Iran” song and Mitt’s love for Gitmo.
Miss Teen South Carolina’s flubbed question made it on two lists.
And hometown favorite Stephen Colbert showed up up three times.
Colbert Celebrity of the Year: “Look for my baby bump this spring!”
December 20, 2007 – 5:14 pm
The Associated Press has selected Stephen Colbert as Celebrity of the Year. What kind of honor is this? Well, he beat out J.K. Rowling for the honor. Colbert’s acceptance message did not disappoint.
Colbert has declined interviews during the writers strike that has shuttered his show, but he told The Associated Press by e-mail:
“In receiving this […]
So You Think You Can Dance Auditions Return To Charleston
December 19, 2007 – 3:27 pm
This from Zap2It.com:
Auditions for the fourth installment of FOX’s summer competition hit “So You Think You Can Dance” will begin on Jan. 17, 2008 in Dallas.
While previous editions have only featured four audition cities, the field has been expanded to six locations, which is bound to be helpful for aspiring prancers in Charleston, South Carolina […]
