Maine humorist Tim Sample has decided to stop performing on stage, while he's still able to stand on one. "Is there any rule that says you have to keep performing until your grandchildren wheel you ...

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Tim Sample is a Maine native whose unique style of New England humor has gained him a national following. Good Morning America host Charles Gibson referred Sample as, The man who wrote the ...

Marshall Dodge and Bob Bryan started it back in the late 1950s when the two Yale students came out with a record titled "Bert and I." Their collection of classic old Maine humor, worked into some of ...

John McDonald, a Maine humorist, writer and longtime radio host, died Tuesday at age 78 after a period of declining health, according to his publisher, Islandport Press. McDonald was best known for ...