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
Neil Fitzmaurice Neil Fitzmaurice Neil Simon Fitzmaurice (born 20 August 1969 in Liverpool) is an English actor, comedian and writer. He is perhaps best known for his acting role as Jeff, the love rival for David Mitchell's character Mark, in the Channel 4 sitcom "Peep Show", but has written for a number of other shows, including "Peter Kay's Phoenix Nights" (in which he also starred) and "Benidorm". Fitzmaurice's writing projects include "That Peter Kay Thing", for which he received a British Comedy Award, and the critically acclaimed "Phoenix Nights", in which he also appeared as "Ray-Von". He has also written two feature