We find the irrepressible Slim at a crossroads in his long career. After three decades as "the King of Black British comedy", this very funny and astonishingly likeable comic is crossing over to the mainstream with the help of new management and a new game-plan. From possibly the world's most terrifying first gig - shoved onstage by a comedian friend at a sold-out Hackney Empire - to just recently selling out the London Palladium by himself, we talk about faking it til you make it, serving and deserving the community, and the tension between his natural humility and the swagger required to kick down doors...

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