Turning 54
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  • Hi Penn fans. Penn Says videos have been discontinued, so you won't be seeing any new content on here. You can check out our Profile on our Channel Page for more info. We'll still be checking in, so hope to keep chatting with you all! Thanks!

  • 40 bothers me.

  • You kick ass Penn!

  • @ABitOfBravado Now it works! You could go say happy birthday on Twitter if you want. He's more likely to read that. :-) /PennJillette

  • @ABitOfBravado His birthday's tomorrow, actually. :-)

  • Penn turns 55 in a week!

  • death is worth talking about

  • 54? Looks like a spry 62.

  • RIP Mr. Zappa, Your memory will live on as long as humans will be around to remember you <3

  • Penn Jillette = Rush Limbaugh with chin pubes and Clairoled hair.

  • Fuck you in the neck, bumpyjjeans.

  • I too am turning 54 this year and have been thinking of Zappa & watching his clips & interviews on youtube the past couple weeks. Strange that I stumbled on your clip today. My mind has been flashing over all the same things you said & more like next Dec. Lennon will have been gone for 30 years. I will now go play 'Zappa live at the Filmore 1971'. ... one of my favorite Zappa albums w/ Flo & Eddie ... Penn, sang on that didn't you? ... lol !

  • LMAO

    >>>"Libertarianism generally, & the Cato Institute specifically, represent old school extreme right wing Republcan Party dogma -- robber barons rule & fuck working people.

    >>>"Show business hacks embarrass themselves for money. That's what they do. They also tend to vote Republican."

    >>>"Show business hacks using YouTube to increase their Q rating is kind of endearing.""

  • to bad you were born one generation earlier, just as this new one will soon find a cure for death.

  • why dye the hair? if age doesn't bother you?

  • what the hell does that have to do with anything

  • Because he's in show business.

  • Cheap Thrills! "...So anyway, six years ago, we went on a tour of carlsbad caverns, and I found a petrified dinosaur turd..."

  • Almost four minutes talking about something you really didn't care about?  And most of it meandering around how old Frank Zappa was when he died?

    The net: where crummy ideas go to ... live forever.

  • Exctly right.

    >>>"Libertarianism generally, & the Cato Institute specifically, represent old school extreme right wing Republcan Party dogma -- robber barons rule & fuck working people.

    >>>"Show business hacks enbarrass themselves for money. That's what they do. They also tend to vote Republican."

    >>>"Show business hacks using YouTube to increase their Q rating is kind of endearing.""

  • Does Penn Jillette really think that crappy one process dye job looks natural?

    >>>"Lose the hair dye and the chin pubes and he'd look like any other old grey fatcat Republican."

    >>>"What a poser. Takes millions to pretend he is a working man, and get you to believe the crap propaganda his corporate masters have him spew at you from time to time. Fat fuck shill should take his blood money and go home."

  • Penn sure likes to speak for famous dead people who hated fat lying corporate dancing monkey shills like Penn Jillette.

    Libertarianism generally, & the Cato Institute specifically, represent old school extreme right wing Republcan Party dogma -- robber barons rule & fuck working people.

    >>>"Show business hacks enbarrass themselves for money. That's what they do. They also tend to vote Republican."

    >>>"Show business hacks using YouTube to increase their Q rating is kind of endearing."

  • Penn: You Rock, Zappa Rock(ed), end of story. Happy birthday dude.

  • Show business hacks enbarrass themselves for money. That's what they do. They also tend to vote Republican.

    >>>"Show business hacks using YouTube to increase their Q rating is kind of endearing."

  • this guy is a complete jack off

  • LMAO

    >>>"Lose the hair dye and the chin pubes and he'd look like any other old grey fatcat Republican."

  • Well, yeah, more or less.

    >>>"What a poser. Takes millions to pretend he is a working man, and get you to believe the crap propaganda his corporate masters have him spew at you from time to time. Fat fuck shill should take his blood money and go home."

  • Show business hacks using YouTube to increase their Q rating is kind of endearing.

  • Happy belated birthday. I've been thinking about my current age in relation to what FZ had accomplished at the same point in his life. He was in his prime at this point of his life and I'm sitting here unemployed. Not looking for pity, I'm actually enjoying it and spending alot of time listening to FZ and researching anything related to him (like this video). It is sad that he died young but he accomplished alot during his time and is fondly adored to lengths that most will never know. RIP!

  • now we know what killed Zappa .. it was right after he met Penn ... that he passed .. he'll always be missed.

    Penn, on the other hand .. will be missed for a few years after shutting up... anyway Penn, Happy birthday.. every birthday you get is one less you have left to look forward to.

    Think on that

  • Hey at least you got to meet Frank Zappa, he died when i was 4, and I found out how awesome his music is just few months ago and now I'm 20. Nonetheless maybe I get to meet David Gilmour and Captain Beefheart.

  • Lose the hair dye and the chin pubes and he'd look like any other old grey fatcat Republican.

  • What a poser. Takes millions to pretend he is a working man, and get you to believe the crap propaganda his corporate masters have him spew at you from time to time. Fat fuck shill should take his blood money and go home.

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  • what the hell are you talking about? were any of those complete thoughts?

  • We can expect Rude Dylan to grasp ideas least of all. Rude Dylan clings to one or two books Rude Dylan was spoon fed in college. Rude Dylan either didn't read the comments in context with the discussion, or Rude Dylan doesn't read much at all.

  • I love how this multimillionaire megacorporate shill tries to make these YouTube videos seem homemade and of the people.

    >>>"Looks his age, and the stereotypical American lard makes him look even older. Without the hair dye this mess would lose half his hipster wannabe audience."

  • at 54 it starts you may need to take the blue pill in the next week or so and frank was the best i sniffed a lot of glue to his music in the 60's

    the derf man

  • penn if you didnt at least try to suck him off then im hitting the unsubscribe button

  • I cried all day when I truned 30, because I would no longer be twenty-something. No b-days bothered me after that one.

    I can see 70 bothering me too. At 70, you know you're just that much closer to death : (

    Damn, Zappa is dead? I'm so out of touch.

    Penn, you will probably outlive many of your generation just because you didn't polute your body with the drugs and alcohol that they did. It really makes a difference in the long run.

  • wow where have you been lol......

  • Becks questions looked like they bothered you.

    a servant

  • Looks his age, and the stereotypical American lard makes him look even older.  Without the hair dye this mess would lose half his hipster wannabe audience.

  • HAHAHA, get a life.

    If that is too hard for you, look in the mirror and make fun of yourself. Join in because everyone laughs at people like you.

  • LMAO

  • RACK THIS MAN!

  • you are a large man.

  • I knew there must be SOMETHING I should like about Penn. SOMETIMES the words he sprays from his blathering lips make me happy, sometimes I think he's spent too many hours onstage and the applause has gone straight to his enormous head.

    However, anyone who's a Zappa fan is automatically awesome in my book.

  • Old = anyone ten years older than you! ;) Happy birthday! I'll be 37 on Sunday 3/29

  • 54 = 5+4= 9, Nine is an unlucky number, Penn beware of this year... LOL, just bullshitting.

  • Cool! I'm younger than Penn. I'm about to turn 50.

  • Hey Penn, you don't know me but I'd really like to know what's not to celebrate about your birthday? I understand the impulse not to. One day is not really any better than another just because we are born on that day and we should really cherish each day.  I tried that for a while but I human. After a while I found myself taking it for granted. So having one day a year to say "Yeah, life is great and I'm still here!" is nice.

  • It's funny that Penn likes both Lou Reed and Zappa as much as he does considering they hated each others guts. I wonder what his thoughts on that feud are.

  • Penn, are you coloring your hair? You sly dog.

  • Hey Penn-

    Whatever did you do to your forehead?

  • Leave me in- I am a Joker bit it 3/21

    was kinda like having a prostate exam without actually getting the obligatory message.

  • massage....!

  • I'm 54 and some months old, also. 54 has its perks -- most people I work with, including bosses, are younger than me, and they tend to treat you with more deference and respect than if you were younger. One is seen to be somewhat sagely. On the down side....you're gettin' frickin' OLD. LOL

    Anyway, Happy Birthday, Penn!

  • Penn doesn't look old at all. He doesn't seem old either...A lot cooler than most guys his age for sure.

  • He ISN'T OLD... he's my age!  LOL

  • Its Richard Dawkins' birthday today. He's 68.

  • christ, i turned 23 on march the 5th. happy birthday big guy!

  • Yeah, you definitely look more like 40

  • Happy birthday man

  • 52? GET OFF MY LAWN!!!

  • I'm going to see Zappa plays Zappa in just a few weeks! Very thrilled, love the DVD. How did you like it Penn?....

  • 54? i was thinking more like 40 - 45

  • Good thing he colours his beard and hair. That really helps. I'd love to see my dad try that if only for a day.

  • i agree with an earlier poster, about appearing younger. I thought you were about 40-45.

  • Ur old fool.

  • I think the moral is: Don't be a rock star. I imagine deep thinkers like yourself will be on panels discussing our universe well into your 80s. By then all my heros will be on public access television, but still, it'll be worthwhile.

  • You should wear your hair loose, it looks better. Also on the bullshit show. Greetings from Holland ;-)

  • Hey pen, if you had accomplished what someone else already accomplished . . . that'd be damn boring. Be glad you found other things to accomplish. We're running out of 'em.

  • Looks like a spry but fat 62.

  • wow Penn u look a lot younger than 54... i thought u were about 40

  • I never feel old, my age plus 15 seems old. and I know people at 70 think 55 is young. it's relative

  • Penn-I love you guy, but really you have the worst laugh (too high pitched and girly). You are too big a man to have that kind of laugh. You should have a manly chortle. If someone made a list of the worst laughs, you would be right at the top with Anderson Cooper. At least in this vid you weren't nervously flipping your hair. But Happy Belated Birthday anyway.

  • what'd you get?

  • it makes you think.

    i dont wanna have regrets.

    we could all die at any time.

    if only we could all live without baggage and regrets eh.

  • I turned 26 in Feb. and about a month before I turned 26, two guys I went to school with died about a week apart from one another. That was just really an eye opener for some reason. I started to realize that I was more than 1/4th of the way through a century. I actually am starting to feel, not really old, but not young. School friends got their own kids going to school now. When you get around 25, you look around and suddenly wonder where the time went and how much time you got left.

  • .. I'm older than Penn Jillette, but tell the kids that I don't get any more birthdays because I used them all up and ran out of birthdays ...

  • don't start tripping on death now. you still have a lot to go.

    look up to james randy; few days ago, he made a death-related video on his accomplishments. so, unless you're eighty, it's not the right time to be contemplating on miracle of dying:)

  • as long as you stay cool and dont become an old grumpy fker it dont matter

  • You don't look anywhere near 54, you should be proud!

  • A belated Happy Birthday.

  • I honestly thought you were 10 years younger. Congrats...next year you can start getting 10% off dinner if you eat before 4pm (lol). Here's hoping you live another 54 (or more......hey, in this day of age, it's not unheard of!)

  • hey penn!! You look good brother, still!

    no drugs OR alcohol in all your days?

    Im impressed :)

  • If i'd been out till quarter to three

    Would you lock the door,

    Will you still need me, will you still feed me,

    When i'm fifty-four!

    Thats for you penn,though the lyrics arent accurate. Hope you read this.

  • haha you still have a pink nail

    XD

    happy late birthday Penn!

  • You have the same birthdate as myself!

  • Your 54 wow You dont look it.

    Well congrats to you and your young looks at your age. lol

    i personally thought you where like in your 30s.

    I am still a big fan of yours :D and tellers

  • i thought you were 27

  • If the age doesn't bother you, why do you die your hair? Not that I mind.  Just being an asshole.

    And happy birthday.

  • hi xenutv i love you

  • Wow, you don't look 54 at all!

  • Happy belated birthday Penn.

  • You're right, this video lost all intrinsic value because the death date was wrong... if you're the mayor of fucktardland. You and your comment are pointless. PEACE

  • Well, it's not pointless, it has meaning. Besides, Penn gets paid for doing this shit.

  • Happy Birthday Penn.

  • rbrtleeper is retarded! PEACE

  • You look good for 54. Happy birthday Penn.

  • I figured Penn would be in his late thirties early 40's! 54 shocks me.

  • The present-day composer refuses to die!

  • age is but a number fine sir. you rock penn.

    hows your little silent buddy doing. has your youtube fame caused a rift? inquiring minds want 2 kno!!! peace

  • i guess it's a bit late but happy birthday buddy, we love you

  • The older the wiser

  • don't forget jim morrison :)

  • Happy late Birthday, I think your as cool as Zappa.

  • no way! will you be my daddy?

  • Fuck the age thing Penn...

    Im sure ur brain will be as healthy as normal

  • Happy Birthday. But really you should be very proud of your age, and you look much younger. You shouldn't compare yourself to Zappa, health wise. After all, you've never smoked, drank or done drugs. More importantly, genetics is the main determining factor with regard to aging and death. You'll likely live longer than your Daddy because his generation had a great deal more stress than subsequent generations. Finally, your mind and soul are still 21 Penn. That's why we love ya.

  • Please forgive me if I'm wrong, but you seem to imply Zappa drank and did drugs. He did smoke a lot, which most likely led to his cancer, but he very rarely drank, if ever, and he was against using drugs such as pot, heroin, cocaine, even lsd. I know you were just complementing Penn on his good health, I just wanted to point those things out.

  • wow we have the same birthday! march 5th ftw

  • Birthdays don't matter as much to me as they do for others, but then again, I am quite rather young yet.

    Still, I just look at it this way. Even on your birthday you are only one day older than you were yesterday.

  • Happy birthday Penn. Wish you 54 more.

  • Don't worry Penn, I've already got your eulogy ready ...

    I knew Penn only by public persona, but I had every reason to believe that it was mostly a true reflection of his personality, since he advocated the right - even the necessity - to say what you truly believe. I really liked the way he would stir up shit and piss off hippies, Christians, and various other non-thinking arseholes.

    But I didn't agree with everything Penn said either. I mean I used to write to him with shit like this:

  • "Jesus Christ Penn, can you PLEASE just ONCE tell us about some dead celebrity you met that WASN'T smart, wonderful, talented, [insert your usual bullshit here]? Are we to believe that - unlike the rest of us - you don't ever meet peers who are stupid, wretched arseholes, that you are, (at least on some level), glad to see fucking dead?

    How can anyone believe the nice shit you say about the people you knew, when you say the same shit and get misty-eyed about everybody?

  • Ever meet anyone that you thought was just "okay", or you personally disliked but acknowledge they weren't a bad person? And fuck that "don't speak ill of the dead" crap. Your unlikely, one-dimensional versions of real human beings devalues any genuinely positive opinions you may have, and makes you sound like a whiny hypocritical little bitch."

    When you are dead, I'll say good shit about you, and bad shit about you - including this. Hope you live long enough for me to make some changes.

  • happy birthday Penn!!!

    you rock!

  • Zappa was born on December 21, 1940 and he died on December 4, 1993, just a few weeks before turning 53.

  • "I'm as old as the number of cars in a deck if you leave in both jokers."

    That's an interesting analysis.

  • I remember when I was 30, thinking that I was too old to play professional sports. Part of my childhood dreams died then, lol.

  • Happy Birthday!! I wish you many years of bacon eating!!

  • Happy B-Day Penn!

  • Happy Birthday! I actually never would have thought you where quite that old. You don't look that old.

  • Happy Birthday Man!

    I was good to hear you remember Frank Zappa. You both are great.

    Suerte!

  • heh heh, Shorter of breath, And one year closer to death...

    Penn, you're old enough to need a fire extinguisher near your birthday cake, just in case...

  • now ya got me thinking, penn. i'm also 54 and i'm suddenly rather peeved at myself for not yet accomplishing as much as zappa did, by the time he was almost as old as us now.

  • Happy Birthday, get that hair dyed...or face a sagging chin. you are warned...

    Raul Schmengy

  • You have the same birthday as my little brother and sister.

  • my gf broke up with me because i dont celebrate anything -_-

    happy B day, penn

    one year closer to death.

  • Happy belated pagan ritual day, Penn. Don't worry. I suspect you have plenty of years left to bash idiots into submission verbally :D.

  • Happy birthday Penn.

  • Hah-Hah! You're OLD :)

  • Hah-Hah! You're ODD :)

  • Hah-Hah! I Am!  :D

  • wow, your birthday is really close to mine, thats kind of creepy and cool.

    happy belated birthday.

  • Zappa Forever.

  • Happy Birthday

    (and still wondering why you go on Glenn Beck's show)

  • When is he on Glenn Beck's show? I think he'd be awesome on Red Eye

  • Red Eye?

    That's the show who's host was mocking the Canadian military and Canadian soldiers last week right around the time four Canadian soldiers were killed in action.

    I think Penn may have a bit too much class to show up for that sleaze ball.

  • He wasn't mocking the Canadian military, he was poking fun at the Canadian government saying their military will need a year off, and I believe the news about the four Canadian soldiers that were killed happened after the show aired.

    Its a really subversive, dark-humor type show, and anyone whose been watching it for a while knows that anything they say shouldn't be taken seriously. It's a good show, check out some of the videos of it (like "Mike Baker - Bi-Polar?')

  • Goddamn Penn, I didn't know you were that old. Which is a good thing. You look (to me) to be around your early 40s.

  • i have the same birthday as you

  • you looked good for being 54

    keep going show us more stuff

    the old saying you cant teach a old dog new tricks do not apply to you :P

  • Relax Penn. Some people live to be 108. You're only half way :)

  • Happy belated b'day! =]

  • Happy Birthday!!!!

  • Penn Happy belated B-Day

  • Zappa kigz ass

  • getting old sucks, but it is better than the alternative...

  • It's fun to age.

  • i love thinking about ages and how people relate to them/how they look. im 19, and hope i have a good 50 years of life before me. thinking about how much has changed in the past 50 years, im terribly excited for it. happy bday penn btw

  • I love Frank Zappa

  • Zappa was my hero too... glad you shared this.

  • Well, happy belated birthday Penn!

    simon

  • You look great for your age.

  • You have a smooth way of breakin' shit down Penn!

  • At least you don't look old Penn. We still love you.

  • Dude, I turn 30 in 4 months and I already freak out... I hate 30... in my 20's I consider myself still as young and immature (in the good kinda way)... but 30... man, that throws you right into real adulthood... 30 is so serious and grown-up.

  • I hear ya- I just turned 30 last week- I feel OLD!

  • Best money I spent in Vegas was at your show.

    When is Bullshit coming back? One of my favorite shows

  • If your aiming for your years to equate to a deck of cards, you should always aim for a tarrot deck!

    And one with good artwork also! And spares! Sodit buy a box of card decks!

  • I love Penn's laugh, living with him must be like living in a jungle.

  • HOLY SHIT. I thought you were your mid-40's.

  • Next year you can leave the rule's card in.

  • 46 years to go

    :-)