I disagree with you. I thought this week’s NL was very clever. There were some misses, as always, but all in all pretty funny
SNL is a pretty amazing show in that it has managed to stay witty and relevant for nearly four decades now with a nearly constantly changing cast. I know that many here don't watch it or like it because they feel it has a left-wing bias. Maybe so but they seem to skewer the Left as much as they do the Right. Now I've never sat and watched the show with a scorecard so maybe they do make fun of conservatives a little more but if they do, it is not that noticeable to me. I'll never forget one of the 1988 shows where they had a skit about a debate between Bush and Dukakis and they were just savaging Dukakis with no mercy at all.
Anyway, their comedy has always been hit or miss but it has always been topical and of the moment and that's what I like best about the show. Watching a SNL episode from years ago is like opening a time capsule.
If you have Netflix, you can watch every single episode from its premiere back in 1975. I've been slowly working my way through the shows in chronological order and I'm up to March of 1977. One of the skits I just saw was Jimmy Carter doing a radio talk show and walking a caller through a drug overdose - great stuff!