Biography
Daniel Maier (born 1968) is a British comedy writer and performer for television, radio, print and 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 every series of the ITV series Harry Hill's TV Burp.
Maier has collaborated with Charlie Brooker on several projects, co-writing the Sky 1 series A Touch of Cloth (2012) and contributing to Death to 2020 and Death to 2021 (2021). He wrote two episodes of the ITV soap Emmerdale (2010) and created the Channel 4 quiz show Quizness (2021). Other television credits include Attack of the Hollywood Clichés! (2021), The Peter Serafinowicz Show and Alistair McGowan's Big Impression.
His radio work includes co-writing the BBC Radio 4 series Trapped with his brother Mark Maier, and writing and performing in shows such as One, Look Away Now and Broken Arts. He is the author of the one-act play The Unattended (2006) and the book Footypedia (2008).
