Biographie

At 21 characters, he has the widest range of roles on Les Simpson (1989), including the maniacal Mr. Burns, local celebrity news anchor Kent Brockman and the Springfield God Squad Reverend Lovejoy and Ned Flanders.

He was the last primary member of the cast of Les Simpson (1989) to win an Emmy Award for his work on the show after finally taking the award home in 2014.

Although he was the second actor (after Christopher Collins) to voice Mr. Burns on Les Simpson (1989), he was the first to utter the line "Smithers . . . release the hounds.".

He's the only one of the six principal voice actors on Les Simpson (1989) not to have done a DVD commentary for the series.

He performed the precursor to the Eddie Haskell character in the pilot episode of the television series Leave It to Beaver (1957). After the filming, Shearer's parents said they did not want him to be a regular in a series. Instead they wanted him to just do occasional work so that he could get a normal childhood. Shearer and his parents made the decision not to accept the role in the series if it was picked up by a television network.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

[on which character in Les Simpson (1989) is hardest to voice] Burns requires lots of tea and honey.

[asked how many characters on Les Simpson (1989) he voices] I think I do about 12 regular characters but I've been able to pad the resume with God, The Devil and Hitler.

[criticizing the decline in quality of Les Simpson (1989)] I rate the last three seasons as among the worst, so Season 4 looks very good to me now.

I write about broadcast indecency with something of a pedigree. Although it's not widely known - since the comedy group I was part of was not widely known - I was party to the first broadcast utterance of the word 'twat.'