John Moschitta, Jr.
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John Moschitta, Jr. (b. 1954 in New York City is a speed-talker and television personality, used in a wide variety of TV shows, movies, and commercials for his rapid delivery of speech. He is listed in Guinness World Records as the fastest speaker and usually credited alongside Steve Woodworth as one of the fastest talkers in human history.
In the 1970s Moschitta attended Nassau Community College, where he appeared in a production of Room Service alongside Nassau alum, Billy Crystal. Moschitta was also once a contestant on the game show, $25,000 Pyramid, where he was paired with comedian Joan Rivers. During the 1980s, he made several appearances on Sesame Street.
He is well known for his Micro Machines television ads, where he would speak very fast and end each one with the slogan "If it doesn't say Micro machines, it's not the real thing".
John "Mightymouth" Moschitta recorded a humorous take on 10 classic novels in which he summarizes each book's entire story in approximately one minute. Included in this collection, entitled Ten Classics in Ten Minutes, is Herman Melville's Moby-Dick; William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet; F Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby; Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind; and John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath. Soon after, he followed up with a second recording, Ten Minute University, in which he rapidly delivers humorous 60-second lectures on various subjects such as comparative literature, physics, economics, and psychology. Originally released on audiocassette in the 1980s, both recordings were re-released on CD in 2004, with accompanying books. In a similar case, Moschitta guest-starred on a Saved By The Bell episode in 1989 as George "Terrible" Testaverde; a teacher who conducts lectures in speed-talk.
He was the announcer for the final season of Hollywood Squares, as well as the short lived game show Balderdash. He also appeared on the 2007 game show Identity, first aired on 23 March. He has appeared in I Love the '80s 3-D where he summarized each year's events in mere seconds.
John was the voice of Blurr in The Transformers, Transformers: The Movie, and Transformers: Animated.
Recently, John appeared on the Adult Swim show, Robot Chicken in the episode Shoe.
