Sample was born in
Fort Fairfield, Maine, and raised in
Boothbay Harbor, where he attended local schools. He briefly attended
Hebron Academy and in 2004 was given an honorary degree from the Academy. As a child in the 1960s, Sample was influenced by the comedy albums of
Marshall Dodge and Robert Bryan of
Bert and I. In 2015, he was an Audie Award finalist for his narration of Stephen King’s humor novella
Drunken Fireworks. Sample and his wife live in Portland, Maine, and Albuquerque, New Mexico. ==Published works==