How to remove the self-reference of the ToC from the ToC?

\KeepFromToc helps in suppressing TOC entries for such \listof commands:

\begin{KeepFromToc}
  \tableofcontents
\end{KeepFromToc}

Thanks to Martin Scharrer, I paid a more attention to the memoir class as the source of the issue.

A closer examination of the memoir README reveals \tableofcontents* as a solution. Seems logical, everything I want to hide gets the star.

I had a similar problem, but with the article class. Neither of the solutions above work for this class, so after much searching I used the advice of Martin above and searched the article class and found that I can simply not use \tableofcontents, and instead use:

\makeatletter
\@starttoc{toc}
\makeatother

This doesn't create a section for the table of contents, so the problem goes away.

Thought I would post this here in case anyone else has a similar problem.