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
That Peter Kay Thing on to appear in the successful spin-off series "Phoenix Nights". "That Peter Kay Thing" won the Best New TV Comedy award at the British Comedy Awards. A number of the characters in "That Peter Kay Thing", including Brian Potter, Max and Paddy, and Jerry St Clair went on to become central characters in the highly successful spinoff series "Phoenix Nights" and "Max and Paddy's Road to Nowhere". That Peter Kay Thing That Peter Kay Thing is a series of six spoof documentaries shown on Channel 4 in 2000. It was written by Peter Kay, Dave Spikey, Neil Fitzmaurice and Gareth