That was a very important moment in comedy....and arts, for that matter. The Boomers wanted to deconstruct their parents' world, but most of their ways still had the strength of time behind it and great meaning to the young people, for all its stoopit rules. The dictates of broadcasting were deeply important to the first cadre of deconstructors. You see the "wild" early episodes of SNL and the stuff is really still very canned and structured. It was the talk show guys, Stern & Letterman, who knew their format lent itself best to deconstruction, that one could point human experience toward entropy and let chaos do the work that order had. And Larry Bud at the bus station is the point where Letterman, who'd taken the bus to this icy decline in the first place, decided to let go of the wheel and see what happened. And the freedom to operate within only what one found funny came to be....