I'm pretty sure you could always be a manchild throughout history, so long as you kept a job. I mean, hell, look how many people used to have train sets and s**t.
I wanted to reference Strangers With Candy by way of a youtube link, but jesus, none of this s**t is fit to be linked. Short version is you, too, can be in your sixties, go to high school as an inside reporter, and be part of a terrible comedy series that didn't even have the few redeeming points of actual comedy which would make it half-decent, like, say, Clone High, which i never watched, or Perfect Hair Forever, which i did.
02/02 Edit:
Here is a link. The level of irony in providing it is entirely unknown. Let's assume there is none at all.