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 4's Comedy Gala (2010) share, between 9 pm and 11.05 pm, with a further 254,000 viewers watching on the timeshift service, Channel 4 +1. This was behind the 8.338 million viewers (34%) registered by "A Touch of Frost", and the 4.321 million (16.1%) who watched "MasterChef" on BBC One. "The Pacific" registered 631,000 viewers on the digital-only channel Sky Movies. An uncut version of the full 3-hour show was released on DVD by Universal Pictures on Monday 26 April 2010. Channel 4's Comedy Gala (2010) Channel 4's Comedy Gala of 2010 was a British comedy benefit show organised by Channel 4. It was the