"There's a side of this man that is completely different from his television persona," he said.

Still, Mr. Lee would like to draw a few distinctions between himself and his shiftless television persona.

Here is a less energetic version of his television persona.

Sapp considered the situation earlier in the day, before his television persona kicked in.

Neither has asked for special dispensation, nor do their television personae have anything to do with the fact that they are also mothers.

What matters is that they don't trot out their television persona in the part, but engage with the character.

"You have no television persona," he wrote.

Or maybe a more confident version of her television persona.

Thomas also used his television persona and experience for the Liberals 1970 by presenting election broadcasts.

She was trying to show him that she was different from her television persona.