Sterling K. Brown's Ben Carson stars in SNL's decidedly less-uplifting melodrama, This Is U.S.

With Brown doing a whiny, introspective Ben Carson (“All of it—all of it is wroooong,” the HUD Secretary moans), Aidy Bryant whipping out a self-loathing version of her belligerently untruthful Sarah Huckabee Sanders, and a shirtless Pete Davidson essaying a desperate, wheedling Jared Kushner (drunkenly begging the United Arab Emirates for $800 million), the parody ad posits that the White House staff is like the Pearson family—except without any semblance of recognizable humanity. Sure, they may all cry (except for Kate McKinnon’s “empty inside” Kellyanne Conway), but, as one review notes, “You’ll be laughing through tears. But without the laughing. So I guess just regular crying.”