Simon Bird: 'The Inbetweeners was already outdated when we made it' 🎙️ The comedy star talks about his new sitcom ‘Everyone Else Burns’, whether ‘The Inbetweeners’ would be made today, and why bringing it back would be a disaster
, which ran for a decade. When you play a family for that long, you begin to feel like one, so the death of Paul Ritter due to a brain tumour last year was a real shock.“That was very unexpected and painful,” says Bird. “And muddied by the fact that he literally played my dad. He was a father figure in more than one way. Paul was a very private person. I found out in the last few weeks of his life that he was really ill, so I had a chance to write to him, but it was totally out of the blue.
“I work very slowly. My wife works quite slowly as well. But also films cost a lot of money to make so it’s right and proper that it should be a long process. It’s got to be worth making.”, the joyfully strange sketch show by Ellie White and Natasia Demetriou from“Directing a sketch show is a dream job because you have to learn how to work in all these different styles,” he says. On a good day, he would ruin takes by laughing out loud.
For all his restlessness, Bird is keen to emphasise that he is not at all ungrateful for the sitcoms that made his name. “I’m lucky that I’ve been in two shows that have captured… No, I’m not going to say that.”“I might have to kill myself if I use that phrase,” he winces. “I went into TV to be in sitcoms that people watched and liked. I feel like it happened too quickly –happened before I’d had the opportunity to find my own voice comedically – but ultimately I’m grateful it happened.
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