I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age.

Burns’ line is a self-deprecating joke built on his extreme longevity and public image as an elderly yet romantically active entertainer. By claiming he would date women his own age—if any existed—he turns a potentially controversial topic (older men dating younger women) into a comic inevitability: time has simply outpaced his cohort. The humor depends on exaggeration and on Burns’ persona of genial candor, using wit to deflect judgment while also underscoring a real human theme: aging can isolate people from peers, making “age-appropriate” companionship harder to find.