It's strange how people are searching the web for this character as though he is a 'Real' person. The man Lorenzo Von Matterhorn is actually a stage name for Barney's playbook. This character was actually played by Neil Patrick Harris,best known for playing a 16-year-old doctor in the Steven Bochco television series Doogie Howser, M.D. (1989-1993). Harris made his debut in 1988 appearing in two films; The Purple People Eater and Clara's Heart.
The character Lorenzo Von Matterhorn was made popular when the producers of Barney made a detailed Wikipedia page of this character. Well, when Wikipedia discovered that this character was not a real person,they redirected it to Barney's character page.
Lorenzo Von Matterhorn was born somewhere in Switzerland in the spring of 1974. The exact date and circumstances of his birth are unknown since he was immediately placed in a basket and tossed in a river, like the legendary Moses of the Bible. Baby Lorenzo rode the pristine Alpine glacial melt waters for hundreds of miles until a young Milanese woman discovered the basket along the banks of the river.
The Italian woman raised Lorenzo as her own son, naming him Lorenzo after her father and giving him the surname Von Matterhorn to reflect his Swiss heritage as well as his uncommonly large penis , A disease known as phallumegaly.
Later in life, he was moved to New York with his adopted family where he grew up. Despite the change of environment, he couldn't shake off his past. Lorenzo began rescuing stray puppies and other cute animals. As someone who had been abandoned himself, Lorenzo recognized both the pain of loneliness as well as the power of hope.Read more...
