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
Raw Dog Comedy Vos, Robert Kelly, Jim Florentine, Dan Soder, Joe Rogan, Doug Stanhope, Louis C.K., Bonnie McFarlane, Marc Maron, Bob Saget, and new up and comers. Other programming includes airings of Bennington's Unmasked series. Raw Dog Comedy Raw Dog Comedy is an uncensored comedy station on Sirius XM Radio channel 99, replacing xL XM Comedy on channel 150 on November 12, 2008. Raw Dog plays uncensored comedy programming and stand-up from various comedians. It also features Bennington hosted by Ron and Gail Bennington and Ricky Gervais is Deadly Sirius. It is described to be "SiriusXM’s comedy club, featuring the up and coming