- At 21 characters, he has the widest range of roles on The Simpsons (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 The Simpsons (1989) to win an Emmy Award for his work on the show after finally taking the award home in 2014.
- He's the only one of the six principal voice actors on The Simpsons (1989) not to have done a DVD commentary for the series.
- Although he was the second actor (after Christopher Collins) to voice Mr. Burns on The Simpsons (1989), he was the first to utter the line "Smithers . . . release the hounds.".
- 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.
- He appeared in This Is Spinal Tap (1984) before being cast on The Simpsons (1989). In The Otto Show (1992), Bart and Milhouse go to a Spinal Tap concert. Shearer, as well as Michael McKean and Christopher Guest, all reprised their roles. This marked the only time on the show that a cast member reprised a film role for the series and makes Shearer the only regular cast member to have done so.
- He has played former U.S. President George Bush on five occasions on TV, most notably several times on the The Simpsons (1989) (in Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington (1991), Mr. Plow (1992), Two Bad Neighbors (1996) and Realty Bites (1997)) and on The President's Coming! The President's Coming! Part 2 (1990).
- He is the voice of the announcer for between-show trivia tidbits and network commercials on TV Land.
- His middle name is Julius, which is also the first name of Dr Hibbert, a character for which he does the voice on The Simpsons (1989).
- He named his five favorite films as Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964), To Be or Not to Be (1942), Singin' in the Rain (1952), It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963) and any Laurel [Stan Laurel] and Hardy [Oliver Hardy] film.
- He filed a $125 million lawsuit against distribution companies Vivendi and StudioCanal for fraud, breach of contract, breach of implied covenant of Good faith and Fair dealing, and is represented by Peter Haviland at Ballard Spahr LLP. [October 17 2016].
- He is one of three voice artists on The Simpsons (1989) to guest star on the show Friends (1994). The other two are Dan Castellaneta and Hank Azaria.
- He is a lifelong liberal Democrat.
- He has appeared in three films that have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: The Right Stuff (1983), This Is Spinal Tap (1984) and A League of Their Own (1992).
- In an interview with The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate, Shearer stated he spent time with Mel Blanc's son, who "was around my [sic] age". Blanc's only child Noel is over 5 years older than Shearer, who was born in 1943.
- Biography/bibliography in: "Contemporary Authors". New Revision Series, Volume 171, pages 373-377. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Cengage Learning, 2008.
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