Jones and Evans are filed as teachers because the movement has no other category to put them in, and even that overstates it: the charter gives founders no doctrinal authority, and neither has ever claimed any. They were working stand-up comedians who worked the idea out on the way to a gig, and the comedic background shows in the format — an hour built for a room, with pacing, an act structure and a strong finish. Jones remained the more visible of the two and took most of the criticism when the network contracted. The absence of a venerated founder is consistent with everything else here, and it is also part of why chapters closed: there was no centre with the authority to prop up a struggling one.