Did John Oliver take a veiled shot at SNL by saying “it’s easy to do bad comedy” about President Trump?

Oliver has a pretty decent point. That is that in the aim of not
seeming to appear partisan ... which I think we have to face the
question ... why are we afraid to appear partisan? ... SNL has
put on the most tepid irrelevant and stupid skits, from the Alec
Baldwin ones that get so much attention to the Larry David ones
that had nothing relevant except that David looks a little like
Bernie.

After stopping watching SNL maybe 20 years ago ( except for
the occasional You-Tube clip ) during the election I started watching.
What I think is that this stuff just makes everyone feel bad when
it is irrelevant. Contrast that with John Oliver's stuff which though
partisan, though I don't know who for exactly - a generalized Left
agenda I guess, at least his team does the fact-finding and checking
and makes relevant jokes that are funny for a reason. That is,
most of the time. Sometimes he just goes off on Trump like the
opening of his show where he has the meme "President Trump,
two words that will always sound unnatural together, like 'f* ckable
clown' or 'Wolf Blitzer”.

What we really need is a media that is relevant and not pure
distraction or anger inducing. How can this not be purposeful
by those who are coming out of the woodwork now to control
the media and trying to take control of our culture.

I think SNL merely adds to the divisiveness, and they do that because
they are told to, if they want to keep their jobs. And if you think that
is wrong, go search You-Tube for clips of Phil Donahue talking about
what the front office at MSNBC told him ... and that was the supposedly
Liberal network.