List of basic entertainment topics
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Entertainment is an event, exhibition, performance, or activity designed to give pleasure to an audience (although, for example, in the case of a computer game the "audience" may be a single individual). The audience may participate in the entertainment passively as in watching opera or actively as in computer games. The industry that provides entertainment is called the entertainment industry. Basic topics in entertainment include:
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[edit] Nature of entertainment
- Main article: Entertainment
[edit] Types of entertainment
Exhibition entertainment:
Live entertainment:
Mass media entertainment:
[edit] History of entertainment
- Main article: History of entertainment
[edit] Basic entertainment concepts
A
Acrobatics -- Aerial acts -- Animal training -- Annie Fratellini -- Applause -- Archaos -- Austin Miles --
B
C
Celebrity -- Chat -- Chinese yo-yo -- Circus -- Cirque du Soleil -- Clown -- Comedian -- Comedy -- Contact juggling -- Contortion -- Corde lisse --
D
Devil Sticks -- Diabolo --
E
F
Fire breathing -- Fire eating --
G
Geisha -- German wheel --
H
Hand-to-hand balancing -- Hoola hoop -- Human cannonball -- Humor -- Horse-Riding --
I
Internet humor -- Ice Skating --
J
Juggling --
K
L
List of beauty contests -- List of people who have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony Award --
M
N
New Media --
O
Old Grey Whistle Test -- Old time radio --
P
Performing arts -- Plate spinning -- P.T. Barnum --
Q
R
Radio -- Radio programming -- Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus -- Rock opera -- Rodeo clown --
S
Sex business -- Stars in Their Eyes -- Show business -- Showstopper -- Side show -- Spanish Web -- Stilting -- Sword swallowing -- Skating -- Show-Jumping --
T
Teen idol -- Tightrope walking -- Trapeze --
U
Unicycle --
V
W
X, Y, Z
[edit] Famous entertainers
[edit] Entertainment lists
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