Entertaiment is a word that has become synonymous with pleasure. Whether it’s a clown at a birthday party, the climactic end to a Broadway show or your friends fighting over the last potato chip-all of these are entertainment. It is derived from the Latin inter tenere, meaning “to hold inside.” From there, it developed as a hospitable provision for guests and eventually came to mean something that diverts or amuses.
According to Bates and Ferri (2010) entertainment is an activity that is understood objectively, communicates between text and audience from an external stimulus, offers pleasure, requires an audience and occurs in a passive form.