Daniel Maier (born 1968, in

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) is a comedy writer and performer for television, radio, print and the stage. He was educated at the Royal Grammar School of Newcastle upon Tyne. Between 2002 and 2012, he was part of the writing team for ITV's

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-winning ''

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''. In 2010, he wrote two episodes of ITV1 soap opera ''

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''. He has collaborated with

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, writing on the shows ''

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'' and ''

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'', and co-writing the comedy series '' A Touch of Cloth'' with Brooker for

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in August 2012, starring John Hannah and

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. In 2011,

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announced it was producing a pilot of ''The Function Room'', a sitcom written by Maier, as part of its

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programming strand. Other television credits include

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’s ''Personality Disorder'', ''

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'', Bafta award-winning ''The Sketch Show'' and Alistair McGowan's ''Big Impression''. Maier is the author of the one-act play ''The Unattended'', performed at the 2006 Edinburgh Festival Fringe; ''Trapped'', a series of half-hour dramas broadcast on

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, co-written with his brother, the stand-up comedian Mark Maier; as well as writing for and performing in BBC Radio 4 comedy shows including ''One'', '' Look Away Now'' and ''Broken Arts''. He has written and performed a show on Victorian polymath Francis Galton and a paper he wrote on the subject has been published in the academic journal '' Significance''. His first book, ''Footypedia'', was published by Century in June 2008 and his writing appeared in

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's book ''Shouting At The Telly'', published in November 2009. Maier is also a contributor to ''

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'', writing about television and as an occasional World of Lather columnist. Since 2008, Maier has been a resident judge at the

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shows, both in London and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Maier is married to author and fellow '' Guardian'' journalist

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Maier, Daniel English radio writers English television writers English humorists 1968 births Living people Writers from Newcastle upon Tyne