For, while British television has spent the Nineties awash with mediocre stand-ups like Phill Jupitus and Lee Hurst, Munnery, whose live show has always been centred around the televisual image, has been banished to its edges, too smart and proud to appear on dumb gameshows, mobile phone adverts and The National Lottery Show.
Anne-Lise's father, she says, has always voted centre-right "but can't identify himself with Sarkozy in the way he could, for example, with [his predecessor] Chirac".
Theoretical doubts about the euro have almost always centred on the long-term problem of maintaining a single currency without a single government behind it.
The funding of law centres has always been precarious, varying hugely from centre to centre, but mainly coming from a combination of local authority grants and legal aid.
"Paris has always been the centre of creativity," she says.
Koché's designer, Christelle Kocher, told the Guardian this month that "Paris has always been the centre of creativity.
Unusual individuals such as Ms Bausch have, moreover, laid down aesthetics for an art form which, in this large, culturally often fractious country, has always lacked a centre.Time to be vigilantIn recent years, however, critics have been lamenting a tendency in Ms Bausch to repeat herself: a waning of inspiration.
"The Isle of Wight has always been an important centre and will carry on being an important centre, but you do need to take difficult decisions about older facilities at times when you are looking to save money, modernise and bring down costs".
