Simon Bird

In the right hands, "silly" comedy can be hilarious. In the wrong hands it can be awkward, boring and simply not funny.

A breezy romp through the life of Paul Raymond – the entrepreneur who became very rich through his strip joints, adult magazines and numerous properties in London's Soho – Winterbottom's...

Screenwriters are often told to “write what you know”, and having attended the same school as one of The Inbetweeners writers and spent my GCSE Physics classes terrorising the meek...

We’re now in the upper sixth at Rudge Park Comprehensive School and Will (Bird), Simon (Thomas), Jay (Buckley) and Neil (Harrison) are growing up. Actually, they’re not at all.

The boys are back for another term of wisdom-free studentship at Rudge Park Comprehensive, a suburban school where being cool and getting the girl simply don’t happen.

E4's first commissioned original UK sitcom people! A channel usually rammed full of American appropriations and repeats of the programmes aired on its older brother has actually given the folk...