Tim Sample

Timothy John Sample (born January 30, 1951) is a Maine humorist.

Life and career 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. and the TV specials Out of Season and Maine Humor Behind the Barn. He has also written and illustrated several books, including How to Talk Yankee and Saturday Night at Moody's Diner. Sample has appeared on The Today Show, Good Morning America and in the summer of 1993, Sample served as a correspondent for Sunday Morning with Charles Kuralt. The segment “Postcard from Maine” lasted 11 years. 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.

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