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It is known as entertainment to the set of activities that allows humans to spend their free time to have fun, temporarily avoiding their concerns. Entertainment is part of the broad family of leisure and has become a thriving sector of economic activity, especially through theme parks and attractions, the media and the film, music or video game industries. The term “entertainment” is of Latin origin.

It began to be used in Europe at the end of the fifteenth century in relation to the financial action of diverting foreign goods to its own benefit.

In 1662, the French philosopher Blaise Pascal produced a renowned study on entertainment that was published in 1670 in his “Thoughts”, developing the contradictory idea that it is necessary for man to be distracted and, therefore, to depart from the essentials.

It is usually called show business to those working in the world of entertainment and entertainment and everything that surrounds these areas. The actors, the directors, the singers, the models and the media characters are part of the show. Currently, show business usually refers to the set of celebrities that appear frequently in the media.

In this universe come both people who stand out for their artistic talent and individuals who achieve fame through scandals. In the entertainment, in this way, coexist from award-winning actors and singers who fill stadiums to men and women known only by the polemics they unleash.

It is called comedy to one of the oldest dramatic genres, opposed in its theme to the tragedy that is, characterized by plots and narrations that evoke laughter and has a happy conclusion. As described by the Greek philosopher Aristotle in his Poetics

The comedy is a representation of men worse than they really are, which allows viewers to make fun of them, even being powerful figures in real life. The ancient Greeks cultivated it as one of the two top forms of the dramatic.

They associated it with the bucolic and pastoral muse named Thalia, who together with Melpomene was the inspiration for the theater. Since then these two arts are represented by two masks: one smiling and the other tearful, associating them with two perspectives around life: the optimist and the pessimist.

Television and cinema are similar media, since they share similarities, although not equal. Television is a means of mass communication. Synchronously transmits sounds and images for simultaneous reception such as education, information, and entertainment.