In his case I think seeing clips of his performances is the best way of appreciating him alongside those well-written obituaries. Sure, Sir Les aimed low, but let's not forget that Barry portrayed Sir Les as a scruffy, blotchy, overweight, dissolute boozer. Clearly, we are not meant to take him seriously and we should recognise the unconscious self-deprecation. That's a side of his humour that the more po-faced often don't appreciate. He was illustrating egregious bad attitudes that were plain to see. We saw the same with Warren Mitchell in Till Death Us Do Part, in which the idiotic and bigoted Alf Garnett came out with all sorts of punches-pulled yet definite racist remarks, ably countered and ridiculed every time by his far more sensible family members. There was so much ignorant criticism of the show that it was laughable. If you couldn't see that the show was lampooning racism and showing it for the threadbare philosophy it is, well there was no helping you. Silly moos!