In 1999, Jim Carrey was sitting on a beach in Miami, having just received the news that he was to play America's strangest, most polarising comic Andy Kaufman in biopic Man on the Moon, when 30 dolphins shot out of the water and Kaufman tapped him on the shoulder. Kaufman said, “Sit down, I'll be doin' my movie.” The only problem was that Kaufman had died in 1984. Carrey – who has described his ex
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