He'll aways be Bottler to me. Tapes of his (and Billy Connolly's) accompanied us as kids on many trips out west, and I can still hear us all singing along to "There was Rasher and Razor and Bottler and me / We borr'eed a car and went down to the sea" (inevitably interspersed with 'Convoy' and 'Patricia the Stripper' - we were edgy, man).
By no means all of his older work comes up to scratch for treatment of race, class and sex (I'm thinking of his Chinese Takeaway routine, to name one...), but find me a comedian from 40 years ago that passes on all counts.