DropDeadGorgias: What about celebrities who play fictionalized versions of themselves? For example, Larry David plays a character with his name on ''CurbYourEnthusiasm'', and it is obviously supposed to represent his real self, but many facts about his life, such as his wife's name are different from real life, and of course, the events are scripted. The same is true for ''FatActress'', ''{{Unscripted}}'', and characters like Mandy Moore on ''{{Entourage}}''. Are these Danzas, or their own trope?

LooneyToons: I've been considering them Danzas, but you may be right that they really constitute a separate trope. If we do branch it off, I'd like to suggest MeButNotMe or maybe TheZenjiro (for the TV star who plays himself in the anime ''KodomoNoOmocha'') as possible names.

{{Gus}}: Just throwing it out there that literature written about true events made "readable" is said to be "fictionalised", which made me think of BioFiction or BioFictional (mushing-up Biographical Fiction) as a possibility here.

DropDeadGorgias: What about AsHimself, as it would appear in classic credits?

I'd call it TheSeinfeld, unless that's already taken.

{{Ununnilium}}: I like AsHimself. Simple, to the point, and most people will grok it at first sight.
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EricDVH: I notice a number of examples like Mister Rogers and Stephen Colbert that involve "characters" which aren't really supposed to be different from the person's public persona within the show. By that definition, people like Burns & Allen would count.
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LooneyToons: Sorry about the Britcom entry; I thought it had been deleted out of sheer cussedness or because someone didn't like it. I've seen a few too many of that kind of edit recently and jumped to a conclusion.

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Stm177: The Teevee.org link is dead

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{{Sikon}}: I was under the impression that Nabeshin ''is'' ShinichiWatanabe; they are a single character, not two different ones with the same model and voice. I thought PuniPuniPoemi made it clear when Poemi, Nabeshin's adopted daughter, had the surname Watanabe and addressed him as "Director".

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* A slightly more subtle Danza is Garry Shandling as Larry Sanders in ''TheLarrySandersShow'', played by Garry Shandling in another self-referential turn as a late-night talk-show host.

BeinSane: ...huh?

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* Isn't that moment in Fifth Element a subversion of this, when Ian Holm says, "Mr. Willis" and is corrected to "Dallas", by Bruce Willis?