Lester Holt is supposed to be moderating this debate tonight. Has anyone seen him? He looks like this:

Clinton and Trump are going at each other, and Lester Holt tried at first to keep them on course…

Lester Holt's got that cool substitute teacher vibe going. #debatenight

— Larry Wilmore (@larrywilmore) September 27, 2016

… and then not so much.

Lester Holt is the kindergarten teacher of this debate reminding his students to please use their inside voices #debates

— Kaitlyn Kaiser (@kaitlyn_kaiser) September 27, 2016

Lester Holt right now #debatenight pic.twitter.com/uB4HxNs12j

— Doug Gottlieb (@GottliebShow) September 27, 2016

The media and both campaigns were going to be tracking Holt carefully.

But I’m not sure that they expected him to disappear altogether. It looks like in his effort to not be Candy Crowley, he’s gone completely in the opposite direction.