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Simon Bird

January 2023

  • Máiréad Tyers, left, as Jen, with Sofia Oxenham and Siobhán McSweeney, in Extraordinary.

    Observer TV reviews
    The week in TV: Extraordinary; Everyone Else Burns; Grayson Perry’s Full English; Lockwood & Co

    Starstruck meets early Sharon Horgan in Emma Moran’s riotous comedy of twentysomething angst; Simon Bird excels as a preening evangelist. Plus, a thoughtful meander through England with Grayson Perry
  • ‘The suburbs should be a crater by now!’ L-R: Harry Connor as Aaron, Kate O'Flynn as Fiona, Simon Bird as David and Amy James-Kelly as Rachel in Everyone Else Burns.

    TV review
    Everyone Else Burns review – a comedy to become religiously devoted to

    Simon Bird stars in a sitcom about a family caught up in an evangelical sect. And with perfect jokes that come this thick and fast, you’ll be an instant convert

    • TV tonight
      TV tonight: Simon Bird prepares for Armageddon in new sitcom Everyone Else Burns

    • The watcher
      Everyone Else Burns: this great new British comedy will make you laugh again and again

    • ‘I was the oldest person on set’: how a doomsday comedy lured Inbetweener Simon Bird back to TV

April 2022

  • Simon Bird

    The reader interview
    Simon Bird: ‘All my favourite directors specialised in bleak, sad comedy – right up my street’

  • Coming of age … Bird at work on his directorial debut, Days of the Bagnold Summer.

    The reader interview
    Post your questions for Simon Bird

May 2021

  • A chaotic mix of brotherly, practical-joke-based warfare, motherly mollycoddling and stomach-churning condiment consumption ... Simon Bird, Tom Rosenthal, Paul Ritter and Tamsin Greig in Friday Night Dinner.

    Farewell Friday Night Dinner: the joyous Jewish sitcom that became a national treasure

  • Clever, twisty routine … Simon Bird in Debrief.

    Simon Bird: Debrief review – winningly silly standup spins jokes in the air

November 2020

  • ‘Why would anybody watch a bunch of teenagers on a Friday night?’ … The Inbetweeners, from left, James Buckley, Joe Thomas, Blake Harrison and Simon Bird.

    How we made
    How we made The Inbetweeners

    ‘They offered me a prosthetic testicle for the fashion show scene but I thought, what’s the point? I was hardly going to claw back any dignity’

June 2020

  • Monica Dolan and Earl Cave in Days of the Bagnold Summer.

    Mark Kermode's film of the week
    Days of the Bagnold Summer review – bittersweet tale of family strife

  • Monica Dolan and Earl Cave in Days of the Bagnold Summer.

    Days of the Bagnold Summer review – sweet tale of a metalhead and his mum

April 2017

  • Smoke and mirrors … from left, Simon Bird, Lowenna Melrose, Matt Berry, Lily Cole, Tom Rosenthal and Charlotte Ritchie in The Philanthropist.

    The Philanthropist review – Lily Cole and Matt Berry star in smart college comedy

  • Cillian Murphy by Nadav Kander

    The best original photographs from the Observer
    Original Observer photography: March 2017

March 2017

  • Simon Bird in rehearsals for The Philanthropist.

    Simon Bird: ‘16 weeks in the West End… I feel absolutely terrified’

    Having struck sitcom gold twice playing callow youths, the Inbetweeners star is preparing for a thirtysomething crisis on stage – and he’s recently become a dad

February 2017

  • Charlotte Ritchie, Matt Berry, Tom Rosenthal, Simon Bird and Lily Cole

    TV's young comedy stars cast in stage production of The Philanthropist

    Simon Bird, Tom Rosenthal and Charlotte Ritchie star in Simon Callow’s production of Christopher Hampton’s 1970 comedy

July 2015

  • Ciarán Owens as Ivan in The Crocodile.

    The Crocodile review – laugh along with Ivan the edible

    Comedy collective the Invisible Dot dine out on this Dostoevsky-inspired tale of an actor consumed by a crocodile

August 2014

  • The Inbetweeners 2, other films

    The Inbetweeners 2 review – sequel to the box office smash

  • Inbetweeners 2

    The Inbetweeners Q&A – as it happened

July 2014

  • Q&A: Simon Bird

    The Q&A
    Q&A: Simon Bird

    'Who would play you in the film of your life? Fassbender or the movie's off'
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