Young Sheldon's Wallace Shawn has never owned a TV set despite his many television roles

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Shawn describes his role as a physics professor on the CBS comedy as "very good fortune for me" and "a wonderful thing." Yet he doesn't watch the show. "Well, I’ve never owned a television, and I still don’t, so I really haven’t understood anything that people have said to me for the last 40 years," he tells Vulture. "I don’t understand references to TV shows, famous TV commercials, important sports events … So I’ve acted on sitcoms more than I’ve watched them, really! But it’s certainly been a very, very congenial forum for me to work in. I’ve done some very wonderful sitcoms, including The Cosby Show and Murphy Brown. I was even on a couple of episodes of Taxi! I’m definitely sort of in awe of the best of these short little dramas."