He grew up in the southwestern
Ontario village of
Comber. Taking an early interest in politics and art, he began to do editorial cartoons for the nearby weekly newspaper
The Tilbury Times. He attended
Sheridan College's illustration course, then later the cartooning and graphic story course. He got work in the public
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation animation department and became one of its mainstays. He animated segments for
Mr. Dressup and a portion of a Buddy Cole segment on
The Kids in the Hall. In the late 1980s, he got involved with the improv comedy troupe Dangerous Poultry through the group Theatresports Toronto, then with
The Chumps Without a Net, who had a weekly radio show on CBC Radio. He was part of
The Second City for a time and was a widely recognized face from dozens of TV commercials and television shows in the 1990s. He appeared on such TV comedies as
The Newsroom,
The Kids in the Hall and
SketchCom, all on CBC, and the drama
E.N.G. on CTV. He scripted multiple CBC Radio programs such as
Muckraker, which he created. Eventually he joined the
Los Angeles staff of
MAD TV, where he contributed writing to 25 episodes of the hit Fox program. He returned to Canada to write for five seasons of
This Hour Has 22 Minutes and the hit CTV sitcom
Corner Gas. In 2009 he became the head writer and executive producer of ''
That's So Weird!'', a youth comedy for YTV. Pearson has won a Canadian Comedy Award and a Writers Guild of Canada award for writing on
This Hour Has 22 Minutes, and has five additional award nominations including for Canada's
Gemini Awards. In 2014 he won a Canadian Screen Award for his work on
This Hour Has 22 Minutes. Pearson has published 3 novels.
Slapshot of Love (2013) is a romantic comedy set in the world of reality TV.
Me and the Crack Mayor (2014) is a political satire which sends up the time Rob Ford was mayor of Toronto Canada.
Marooned In Space (2016) is a comedic science fiction novel about an unlikely group of astronauts discovering distant worlds. All three books are available around the world through Amazon. Along with
Dan Redican, he is a co-creator of the sketch comedy series
Sunnyside, which premiered in 2015. It was nominated for 5 Canadian Screen Awards (The Candy), winning 2. ==References==