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
Channel 5 (UK) programming a return to the channel on 4 October 2009 every Sunday morning after agreeing a deal with Disney. The block features "Hannah Montana", "Wizards of Waverly Place" and "Snobs". It also saw the return of Channel 5's hit teen show "The Tribe". Children's programmes aired on the channel include: The majority of Channel 5's comedy programming are imports from other countries. Numerous American sitcoms are shown on Channel 5, most notably "Friends" and the spin off series "Joey", as well as the first series of "Two and a Half Men" and the first two series of "Everybody Hates Chris". In