[1] Sample was born in Fort Fairfield, Maine, and raised in Boothbay Harbor, where he attended local schools.

[3] As a child in the 1960s, Sample was influenced by the comedy albums of Marshall Dodge and Robert Bryan of Bert and I.

He has also written and illustrated several books, including How to Talk Yankee and Saturday Night at Moody's Diner.

[1] Sample has narrated several audiobooks, including Robert McCloskey’s Burt Dow: Deep-Water Man, Stephen King’s The Sun Dog and the documentary From Stump to Ship for Northeast Historic Films.

[7] In 2015, he was an Audie Award finalist for his narration of Stephen King’s humor novella Drunken Fireworks.