Simon Bird studies at Birkbeck College, Bird set up the sketch comedy group "The House of Windsor" with former Footlights contemporaries Joe Thomas (who plays Simon Cooper in "The Inbetweeners") and Jonny Sweet. They performed at the Edinburgh Festival in 2007 and in 2008 with a show called "The Meeting", described as a site-specific comedy installation set in an actual boardroom, which received national media attention and a clutch of five-star reviews. Bird and Thomas were also regulars on series 1 and 2 of "The Weekly Show", a podcast for Channel 4 Radio (2006–07). Bird also performs stand-up comedy and took part
Channel 4 F1 early due to budget cuts and would transfer the remaining three years to Channel 4. Channel 4 will be showing ten selected races live without advertisements and every race (even live) will be shown as highlights. Channel 4 will be the first free-to-air station that will not run commercial breaks during its ten live races. Channel 4 will broadcast from to the end of the seasons after purchasing the rights shared with Sky Sports from BBC. Channel 4 will also show the race and associated events of the British Grand Prix and final race weekend. Extended highlights will be shown