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
The Comedy Channel (United States) that was shown three times during a 24-hour period, including such things as reruns of "Monty Python's Flying Circus". In 1990, The Comedy Channel and Ha! agreed to merge their operations and create a new channel called "CTV: The Comedy Network", which debuted on April 1, 1991; prior to the merger, each channel had fewer than 10 million subscribers. The Comedy Channel struggled both commercially and critically; critics derided the hodgepodge of clips from comedy films and stand-up comedy acts that filled the long gaps between original programs. In order to avoid confusion and trademark issues with Canadian over-the-air broadcast