Retirement at 65 is ridiculous. When I was 65 I still had pimples.

In this quip, Burns uses self-deprecating exaggeration to mock the idea that a fixed retirement age makes sense for everyone. By joking that he still had “pimples” at 65—an image associated with adolescence—he collapses the usual timeline of aging and suggests that vitality and usefulness don’t neatly correspond to chronological age. The line also reflects Burns’s public persona as a long-working entertainer who remained active well into old age, turning longevity into a comic argument for continued engagement with life and work rather than withdrawal by social convention.