What Is Entertaiment?
The clown at a birthday party, the Broadway show, the stadium rock concert, your friends fighting over that last potato chip – all of these are entertainment. It comes from the French word to entertain, meaning to support or keep happy, so you might also think of it as entertainment that keeps you distracted from your everyday worries – and the best kinds of entertainment often inspire other forms of amusement. For example, the story of Scheherazade from Persian professional storytelling tradition inspired a work by composers Rimsky-Korsakov and Ravel and a film by Pasolini.