Neil Patrick Harris

Typically, actors playing themselves on film are listed "as Himself" in the film's credits. Due to the over-the-top, outlandish nature of his role in Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle and Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay, he requested that his credit read "Neil Patrick Harris" instead of "as Himself". This was to make clear that he was playing a fictional character that was in no way a true representation of himself.

I'm glad he's not a total sellout. I respect him a little more now... but I don't think I'll forgive him for having anything to do with those awful movies.

EDIT: The first paragraph is a quote from IMDB. The second is my own writing. In response to the person who commented on this, I "left NPH alone." In fact, I painted him in a positive light. I had thought that he was a washed up actor with nothing better to do than make fun of himself in a God-awful movie but now I find that he does have dignity. It is the movies I am bashing, neither of which were his own conceptions and he had nothing to do with the writing, directing, or production of them (if he had, they might be good movies). In bashing the movies, I am not bashing Neil Patrick Harris.