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  • I'm 5ft 2 and this made me laugh XD

  • trying still to make sense of this enjoyable song...maybe, "short people, tall people, blue people, green people, men from Mars people"...it's a wonderful world when people aren't the same...

  • For everyone that has taken offense to this song...Its not about short people. Randy Newman wrote this song about bigotry and to show how rediculous it is. He thought if he wrote a song showing bigotry against a group of people that really has no hate based opposition he would show how stupid hating people was. He thought singing about short people was no different than singing about tall people or left handed people. He was surprised when ppl started protesting his concerts...all 5ft and under.

  • I'm only 5'2" okay. I don't mind being a short person. Look at it this way okay. For those of us who are short we'll never outgrow our clothes, we'll never outgrow our size and everyone thinks we're cute!!!!!!!

  • @healthcaregirl3 You outgrow clothes if you're fat...

  • @Blazefur6776 Not if we eat right and stay thin!!!!! As for me, I'm very petite and I eat right. So I don't have to worry about getting fat. I take very good care of myself and my body.

  • Being 5 foot eight never felt so good!

  • haha hank the drunkin dawrf was right he is an asshole

  • I am a small person and I have one thing to say to all of the others that are pissed off by either this song or this video and that is grow the fuck up. That's right, we can't. Ha Ha Ha. If you can't laugh at yourself then you force everyone else to. Keep that in mind.

  • @TheJaredap typical short people comment

  • @TheJaredap I agree! :D

  • It's just a joke guys! stop fussing!

  • WOW!!!!!!!!!! You guys are alllll messed in the head! What the hell is wrong with you,just because people are short doesn't mean you have to say such rude comments and think dirty thoughts. Randy Newman is an idiot!!!!!! And you all need to keep your opinions to yourself. WTF?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @kartrouble94 I hate short people and I hate you, both have no reason to live.

  • @PoppaJ2Swift wow.... I'm not here to please your ass, but hey whatevs. and if you hate short people so much, why the hell are you watching this video, its based on short people..... DUHHH!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @PoppaJ2Swift and I do have a reason to live, you're the one that doesn't. Go die alone dumbass, because at least I'll die with short people! Alot better than being alone

  • @kartrouble94 and you will die with short people

  • @benbrenyefski Dude, I am a short person, so no fucking shit! At least I won't die alone like you

  • I once worked with a damn midget woman.. her arms were so short she could not even reach her crotch with her hand. Now that was a scary realization on my part... think about it..... And she lived alone! GROSS!!!

  • Stack up midgets in the closet... they take up less room that way... like shoes....

  • Short people suck! Period!!

  • Short people are just the right height to suck your dick while you are both standing up!  YEA!!!!

  • short people are assholes at school and show off to much

  • @gamezonic Short people really do suck!.. BIG TIME!! My own mother in law is just 5 foot tall. She takes forever to walk across the damn room because the little short pug legs are like a baby's! He short fat little pug arms can't reach any damn thing... ever! "Can you help me?.. I can't reach that" i s all we fucking hear from her. She drives with the seat about 6 inches from the damn steering wheel and is still to short to see over the fucking steering wheel like a normal human.

  • @kingjstin All thaT BOOZE STUNTED YOUR GROWTH! GO JOIN THE CIRCUS

  • Rhinos

    They scare little boys

    Assassinating parents

    Don't bring em much joy

    That's Randy.

  • Randy Newman actually wrote Short People as a song about bigotry, to show how rediculous it can be. To demonstrate the point he wrote a song professing hatred towards a group of people he figured no one would take him as seriously hating. He later stated that people didn't get that he wasn't being serious. For years after this song hit the charts he had protestors at all his concerts...all under 5 ft tall.

  • One of his biggest hits, "Short People" was written from the perspective of "a lunatic"[3] who hates short people. "Wikipedia"

  • What, no Oompa-Loompas?

  • I feel good i got a big long bonna and im 6''3' woot! cant get better

  • Just found out Randy Newman is an atheist! That makes him even MORE awesome!

  • @mphello these days everyone is - would be more interesting not to be, imo

  • @mphello Religion should have nothing to do with someone's awesomness dumb butt.

  • lol Im 5"3' and a freshman guy in highschool so i can relate to this

  • @22Mrjsmooth wow 5''3' is short man! like a woman

  • @CrAzY6666NiCk Like a damn midget!

  • @22Mrjsmooth well im a freshman so im still growing

  • @22Mrjsmooth 2 foot now??

  • @Lindawatcher 5"5 now! lol

  • @22Mrjsmooth I am not really tall myself... only about six-foot,one inch or so barefoot, but some damn midget women could literaly give me a blow-job while standing up. Now if that little miget bitch had no teeth and a flat head she would indeed be the "Perfect Woman". (( The flat head would give me a place to sit my beer)).......

  • Optic midnite =No sleep Wiz kalifa

  • 24 people got no reason to live

  • @MrCleaverhook 24 people really don't like short people

  • :35 still looks more entertaining than women's basketball

  • Other than omitting the Time Bandits and Wee Man, this was pretty good.

  • rotfl at 1:05

  • im a huge lord of the rings fan and at 0:21 i lmao

  • MINI ME!!!!!

  • Regardless, this song has a great melody with a fade-out that I could listen to forever....

  • I like the midget who pairs up with Kramer on Seinfeld.

  • 1:42 that guy looks like he weighs twice as much as the next to him that is twice as tall.

  • was looking for this song for ages and couldnt remember who the artist or title was and guess it was something to do with people and had known this was a hit in 1977.

  • 21 people were too short to reach the like button

  • I love this! It's so funny!!!!!

  • is from little ratscils

  • The reason god made short people is so Randy Newman could suck them off without using a jam can!

  • the song is brilliant satire of discrimination not to mention extremely catchy xD

  • i love how newman makes songs like this there happy go lucky songs

  • there's room for a Tom Cruise joke here. . .

  • god love people like Newman who can rise above and belittle the belittlers

  • haha i love this song... i'm pushing like 5'7 and thats all ill ever be. But i got the proportions if you know what i mean ladies

  • my bf is short :) hes well sweet xx love you danny

  • my bf is short :) hes well sweet xx love you danny

  • SHORT PEOPLE HAVE NO REASON TO LIVE. if you're a man and you shorter that 6 feet, you're just weird and malnourished. however i love women of all sizes :)  but yeah, short dudes, you got no reason to live and your weak as fuck to :) lol

  • @TheBeairdManCometh You realize that 65% of American men are 5'10" or shorter right?

  • @MichaelnChristine dude, my bad, lol i was being sarcastic as fuck. but for real? 65%??? wow. im sorry, i hit 5'10" in middle school. im bias i guess lol. no hate

  • @TheBeairdManCometh LOL Just sayin'. I get where you are comin' from...I'm 6'4". It's just funny how we think of 6'0 as average when it isn't. It's even more funny when you look at hollywood and these guys are 5'2-5'4"

  • @MichaelnChristine tom cruise needed platform risers to look as tall as his own ex wife in eyes wide shut. i thought that was hilarious. that dude is bridge troll short.... damn scientologists.

  • @TheBeairdManCometh that is so funny! p.s. don't respond

  • @MichaelnChristine Im only six ft- one inch tall... and I am almost a damn midget where I work... Where does that put all the guys under 5-5?  lol lolololol

  • poor diet

  • man it feels good to be tall

  • @BranOfTheDon I wish I was tall... not only 6-1... I am almost a midget... SIGH!!!

  • I didn't realize Randy Newman had such a low opinion of short people... 

  • Randy Newman, how many true friends does he actually have ?

  • I'm 18, I'm 5'0'... FML >.<

  • @1p2d3a DAMN MIDGET!

  • ok watch my videos and start growing taller now!

  • haha i was watching the little rascals and this song came on ... haha i love that movie

  • I always sing this song to my mother. She is only 5'1 and I am 5'7 LOL

  • fuck randy newman

  • are you short ?

  • Lol at 1:50 "beep beep beep"

    im immature as fuck...

  • I remember when this came out, I was six and thought that it was funny

  • this song n video is rude as hell but it is super funny little people big world

  • awesome song lol no offense

  • I love this song!! Not even if the lyrics are bout short people or not, just lover the tune.

    How is it meant figuratively though? Some people say it is.

  • it was being sarcastic because he said in the song that they are just like us. He was kind of doing something when you say "i am you and im stupid because im you" kinda thing

  • do u actully think randy would do something like that to make fun of some one if u wernt so insacure it would make a bit more sence

  • change the words to Black people,fat people,jewish people,or in Randys case Ugly people, and see how people like it.... the song is mean no matter how people "spin" it. Go jump of a tall bridge..

  • Damn big, you just don't get the song do you? He's not prejudice against you short people. If you'd listen to the damn song and stop being so damn insecure about your self maybe you could understand.

  • DEVIN07070707 is a FAGGOT ASS DICK RYDA!!!

  • If you can't figure out that this is a joke by the time he sings "You gotta pick 'em up just to say hello" You really should just castrate yourself. In fact, all you danglers that couldn't figure out it was a joke thirty seconds into the song, stab yourselves in one of your balls as punishment.

  • Note the beautiful and distinctive backing vocals of Glenn Frey, JD Souther & Timothy B. Schmit. Most of the Eagles played a huge role in the production of this great album by Randy Newman called "Little Criminals."

  • i have a pick that i caught by Tim Schmit!!

  • Okay this guy is so mean i am short does that mean i have no reason to live

    :(

  • ....its not his actual feelings about short people. Relax people. I would hope we could progress in our understanding of sarcasm since the 70's when they really hated him for this song.

  • this guy made music for toy story lol

  • midgets hahghaha

  • yes.

    kill yourself.

    use a screwdriver... wait, your little hands probably couldn't grip it....

    sucks to be you...

    beep beep beep.

  • ....and you gotta remember, the pic appearing in the video are not put there by the artist.

  • Lighten up people, the song is fun, and if you would all take the time and look up why he wrote the song, you would know he didn't mean nothing by it. The song is meant to make people realize how stupid racism and all that is. "short people are just the same as you and I,"

  • is he forreal saying flat out that midgets should die? like it's not a joke or something is it?

  • no he not saying that this song was ment for kids not for short people as in midgets it was ment to say that kids don't really have a say in what gose on because no one respects us because where short and its tru no one treats a kid with respect even after he is 18 u won't get it tell your 24 soooooo he just mean that there is no reason to live if no one care about us its just sarcasum hope thats spell right lol but yea just like korean people listen to that song

  • 1:42!!!!!!

    HAH!!!!!

  • this is pretty fucked up XD

  • haha! hoobits 0:22

  • I honestly don't think Randy Newman is that good of a musician. It's funny to me how popular he is. His music is simple and uninteresting; albeit catchy. Perfect for a Pixar film. "They got little cars that go beep beep beep and they got little voices that go peep peep peep." He probably wrote this bag of trash in about 30 minutes. Very sad....let's hear it people; I know the anger is coming....

  • im not angry i agree lol

  • I feel he pours out his soul when he performs Sail Away, though.

    Look it up.

  • Yeah, I listened to that song, and it's just as simple and silly. What soul is he pouring out? Sounds like an over-simplistic view of slavery; which can be taken as racist. Not only are the lyrics simple as always (along with his message).....the music is just as simple.

  • Well then, I guess there is no such thing as artistic license after all.

    Feel free to write something better.

    I assure you, the majority if your textual comments would be negative; where as the majority of the textual comments on his songs aren't.

    The masses have spoken.

    I Concede the last word to you.

  • Nope, you can have it. I've said my piece.

  • This is funnier than a lot of parody songs I find

  • The only funny thing about it is that Randy Newman seriously wrote this...

  • i mean look at wee man he's happy

  • fuck it i just putin out there that im a midget and this dose not ruin my day. thats randy newmans view on me and the other short people out there.when life brings you down just chill and forget about it.lifes to short like me.

  • my name is michael cirulnick 1904-225-8353

  • yea this song is about children not short people thats y it was on little rascales

  • The midgets must hate this song. They should play it at a LPA convention!

  • short people rule!

  • great song and vid, im sick of these ignorant assholes on youtube putting everything down every chance they get, peace to all

  • This song doesn't literally have to do with short people. This video sucks.

  • oh wow good for you .... YOU SEE THE REAL MEANING,... and we don't? People like you are whats wrong with the world, stuck up fuckwads who think they're better than everyone else.

    Sorry we cant all be on your level, "nice2all"

  • He is probably short.

  • and your saying that when your dad is one wow his a pedophile boiment bitch

  • This song is so hysterrical, and of course it is all a joke. You people need to learn to laugh.

  • @Mike6E I hope you didn't mean the song was a joke, because it was far from. The video clip may be, though.

  • @dspm90 Listen to the whole song. He isn't serious, its in the hook.

  • @Trent04 I was referring to the hook when I was saying the song wasn't a joke. He was sending a very serious message by satirizing racism and other prejudice, therefore I don't think it's appropriate to say the song is a joke.

  • This song is banned from radio play in the state of Maryland. Ironically, Newman has a tribute song off the same album (Little Criminals) entitled, "Baltimore".

  • Bastards dats terrible It's a well gd song

  • POWER TO THE LITTLE PEOPLE

  • @funkeekidd this was andre the giant's favorite song.... "sniff"

  • dude the song wasnt meant to offend the only thing thats offensive is the video other then that the song has a meaning

  • meaning is that randy is rlly makin fun of the government or sum1 like that cuz the dont like rlly want the cuban pple even wen the r humans 2... anyway thats jus an ex:(like is may not b nessarly the cuban & government) but wat he rlly is meanin..

    but yea im a short person.. well not miget size but im not nearlly offended so no1 els shood b

    hey.. but jus sayin...

  • I am one foot tall but have an eight ton penis. Them's the breaks I guess...

  • Thats great!  Those little trolls just crack me up!

  • Shut up, you're just too stupid to understand the irony... Shorty.

  • sorry i said fuck and all but lol ty am short and am happy as the tall pepole and yes i dont understand much am 12 o well live happy tall person

  • I'm not that tall and you'll grow if you are 12, keep your spirits up and sorry for calling you 'shorty'.

  • thank you=) and np

  • dude just calm DOWn!! wats the meanin is that is is not makin fun of pple short... randy's makin fun of the the pple who critize pple jus cuz of lil things... trust me he actually loves short pple!!

    im 12 & 4/9 too!! I love randy newman! WATCH YO MOUTH

  • i love this song. (= and im tall but i just love the beat and everything

  • all of you are not funny shut up

  • I'm 6'1 and LOVE teaseing my oldest brother, he's 5'4. tee-hee! :D

  • im 5'1 and im soo offended...NOT....i respect this song so much...i love this song...and wen i here this songs i feel like im 3'1...who cares..GREAT SONG (im ot offenend i was just kidding)

  • lol that freaking funny song

  • I am TALL and i LOV Ethis song

  • i'm only 5'0

  • haha

    I'm 16, and at 5'6 I've officially stopped growing, but you would have to have a major chip on your shoulder to be offended by this song. I like it =D

  • im only 5'3 and 14 but i'm not really offended by this song. i'm only supposed to grow to 5'8''

  • gay

  • ur gay

  • hey dumb ass this is a faget ass move!

  • In an interview, Randy Newman said he was making fun of Republicans and Democrats. Republicans making stupid reasons to not like certain people and Democrats always trying to "love" everybody around them.

  • It's not that good.

  • This is the worlds best song.  Its funny. Im 5'10.5 and 15

  • That's not extremely short. You're taller than me by about half an inch, and same age, andI'm supposed to reach 6'2"

  • Randy Newman is 5'6.

  • the song is about bigotry, the ridiculousness of hating anyone because of the way look.

  • im only 15 and im 6'5" im almost 6'6"

  • this so stupid its the worst song iv ever heard beacuse it makes fun of short people im 10 and im only 4,8"

  • yo its not making fun of people its showing the irony of people belittling other people! im 16 and im only 5 feet tall and im not gonna grow anymore! dont gleek theres no need to take offense to it!

  • hey im only 5'3

  • So you´ve got no reason to live you lying midget! Take those platform shoes off your nasty little feet. Get your grubby little fingers and dirty little mind off Youtube......Don´´t want no short people round here!

  • LMAO! but I hope u were just playing..

  • this song rules

  • Peep peep peep.

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