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
Comedy Lab Comedy Lab Comedy Lab is a British television series which showcases pilots of experimental comedy shows. Series have been aired irregularly on Channel 4 and E4 since 1998. Several pilots first shown on "Comedy Lab" have gone on to spawn full series, most notably "Trigger Happy TV", "Fonejacker", "That Peter Kay Thing", "Meet the Magoons" and "FM". It also gave Jimmy Carr his first television appearance in "Jimmy Carr's World of…Corporate Videos". The 2001 series featured the episodes "Knife and Wife" (featuring Kevin Eldon), "Orcadia" (featuring Alice Lowe), "Daydream Believers: Brand New Beamer" (featuring David Mitchell and Robert Webb) and