While trying to find out why Stephen Colbert was listed in the closing credits as Dr. Stephen T. Colbert, I ran across this blurb on his Wikipedia page:

Colbert was the commencement speaker for the class of 2006 at Knox College. Colbert also received an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts Degree from the college on June 3, 2006. [22] On the June 8, 2006 show his Executive Producer credit changed to Dr. Stephen T. Colbert D.F.A. (in a possible parody of Bill Cosby’s appearance in credits as “Dr. William H. Cosby” after having received an honorary degree) to reflect this.

I have no idea why Mr. Colbert has decided to list himself that way in his credits. Perhaps he thinks it’s cool and funny to have an honorary doctorate. I know I would, and I’d probably put the Dr. before my name sometimes just to be silly. What I don’t like about the above blurb is the hating on Dr. Cosby. Does he has a few honorary doctorates? Yes, he does. He also has an honest to goodness earned-the-hard way Doctorate in Education, which he received in 1977 from the University of Massachusets … and that entitles him to put that Dr. in front of his name any time he pleases. He isn’t just calling himself a “doctor”. He actually IS one.

It just irks me that so many people don’t know Cosby has actually completed a good deal of higher education, more than most people really, and think the only degrees he has are on the honorary variety (and thus “worthless”.