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
Simon Munnery lasts an hour") and "Simon Munnery Weakly Chats" on Resonance FM. He also wrote and performed two four-part Radio 4 series called "Where Did It All Go Wrong?", which were broadcast in the summer of 2003 and the spring of 2005. In 1999, together with John Hegley, he made a comedy series for BBC Radio 4 called "The Adventures of John and Tony". Munnery featured as a "genius" on Dave Gorman's "Genius" show on Radio 4. Munnery has several CDs available: "Alan Parker – Blast From The Past" (featuring Stewart Lee on guitar and Al Murray on drums), "Simon Munnery's