Monday, February 21, 2011
Simon Bird spreads his wings
He's best known as the nerdy sixth-former in The Inbetweeners. His next role is as an awkward suburban teenager in C4's new sitcom, Friday Night Dinner. But how close is Simon Bird to his TV persona?Twice in the first minute of Simon Bird's new sitcom Friday Night Dinner, which starts next Friday on Channel 4, we're reminded of this relative newcomer's precise position in our culture. First, that unmistakable mug ? the ingenuous eyes, the gappy smile, the newsreader hair ? filling the screen in the earliest frame of the title sequence. And quickly afterwards, in Bird's opening chunk of dialogue, an extended joke about his nether regions: the imagined dilemma of "stereo cocks". Juvenile? Perhaps, but comforting stuff for those who know and love Bird for his role in The Inbetweeners, where
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