 He has successfully fooled major media outlets into thinking he is a real person, including "The New York Times", who quoted him in a May 1, 2004 article about the Michael Jackson trial, before running a redact five days later noting that he was a character.Despite this, the Times wrote again about him, as if he were a real person, during the 2007 O. J. Simpson robbery case.In 2008 Barbieri won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics for the "Jimmy Kimmel Live!"