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
Neil Simon won the Pulitzer Prize along with the Tony Award for "Lost in Yonkers" (1991). The Neil Simon Festival is a professional summer repertory theatre devoted to preserving the works of Simon and his contemporaries. The Neil Simon Festival was founded by Richard Dean Bugg in 2003. In 2006, Simon received the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. Simon was credited as contributing writer to at least 49 plays on Broadway: In addition to the plays and musicals above, Simon has twice rewritten or updated his 1965 play "The Odd Couple", both of which versions have run under new titles. These