...he used to be one of the best heel commentators too, though he's been slipping in and out of that recently....
And by recent you of course mean the last eight years.
I've never liked him as a commentator! When I started watching WWF, Heyman was teamed with JR, and he was fantastic. When Lawler came back, the only thing I knew about him, was he wasnt as good as Heyman (and at this point, I hadnt even realised Heyman was Paul E Dangerously from back in my WCW watching days in the early 90s).
If Lawler was ever any good as a commentator, I never heard it!