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
Jay MacLarty popular book. This resulted in a series of four paperback thrillers published by Simon & Schuster. These are: Each novel was nominated for a Barry Award and features Simon Leonidovitch as protagonist, a professional courier who takes assignments that become dangerous. The second book in the series (Bagman) received a starred review in "Publishers Weekly". MacLarty was a leader of the Las Vegas Writer's Group, formed to help local writers advance their careers. Jay MacLarty Jay Hector MacLarty (December 30, 1943 – December 23, 2010) was an American entrepreneur and novelist. J MacLarty was born in Spirit Lake, Iowa. His