Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.

Burns uses self-deprecating exaggeration to mock the idea that a fixed retirement age makes sense for everyone. By claiming he still had “pimples” at sixty-five, he frames himself as youthful and active well past the conventional endpoint of a working life. The joke underscores a broader theme associated with Burns’s public persona—longevity, continued productivity, and skepticism toward social expectations about aging. Implicitly, the line argues that capability and desire to work vary by individual, and that mandatory or culturally assumed retirement can be arbitrary, even wasteful, when people remain mentally sharp and creatively engaged.