 He also appeared in adverts for the furniture store SCS as well as doing much voice-over work for adverts and TV shows.Educated at Lancing College and St John's College, Cambridge, where he studied computer science, Shearer was a member of the Cambridge Footlights and in 1981 was part of the team that won the inaugural Perrier Award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.He appeared in the short-lived ITV series "There's Nothing to Worry About!"