[3] Together with Stephen Fry, Emma Thompson, and Hugh Laurie, Shearer was a member of the Cambridge University's Footlights ensemble which won the first ever Perrier Comedy Award in 1981.
He graduated from St John's College, Cambridge in 1981 with a degree in computer science.
[6] After graduating he lived in a flat with Peter Cook and Hugh Laurie.
[8] On 30 October 2024, their 25-year-old child Cal Shearer, who was transgender, non-binary and autistic, was found dead in their dorm room at St John's College, Oxford, in an apparent suicide by hanging.
1988: Snow White and the Seven Dwarves at Cambridge Arts Theatre[46] 1991: Teechers at Duke's Theatre[47] Shearer was a writer on the following shows: As a property journalist Shearer has written for The Financial Times,[52] The Times[53] and France Magazine.