Mark Maier

Heckler thrown out for anti-Semitic remark towards Mark Maier

A Bishop's Stortford comedian insisted this week that he will not tolerate racism at his comedy clubs after he ejected a heckler for shouting an anti-Semitic remark towards one of his acts. Award-winning stand-up comedian Mark Maier was less than four minutes into his act at Great Dunmow Comedy Club on Friday May 6 and was speaking about his German father when an audience member shouted "I thought you'd be Jewish with that nose".

The Comedians at the King's - live review

Whether the screen version of The Comedians at the King's will change the minds of those who decides who appears on existing TV stand-up and panel shows is probably open to question, given how such programmes are often about developing relationships with emerging talent more than showcasing a tight ten honed over years on the circuit.

Mark Maier: 'Anti-Semitism is all the rage'

Confessing he's not one of those stand-ups who relishes a heckle, he adds: "Years ago at a gig, some drunken anti-Semitic fool in the audience shouted 'why don't' you f**k off back to Golders Green?' I mumbled something awkward about him being a Nazi but had I had a bit more experience I might have said something mildly amusing like 'you think I can afford to live in Golders Green? Have you seen the prices?'"

Interview: Mark Maier

Rebecca Wallersteiner chats to comedian Mark Maier about his love of laughter - then chuckles her way through his new show at JW3.

We're on the 9.20am from Paddington to Exeter in Mark Maier's new sitcom, an Upstairs Downstairs of rail travel. Robin (Jeremy Swift) is the train manager, trying to keep order while his private life crumbles. There's a flirtatious girl on the refreshment trolley, a self-obsessed buffet attendant, a proper restaurant car with an old-fashioned steward and a frantic female chef. They all fancy each other in a circle of comically doomed expectations. The passengers are daft, dumb and cross. In other words, it's distinctly well observed.