What constitutes entertainment for one person, group or organization may not be considered the same for another. Entertainment is flexible and can be adapted to any scale, from a personal choice of entertainments from the now enormous array of pre-recorded products; to a banquet adapted for two; to performances for thousands; and to a broad range of social and cultural activities with a variety of purposes including celebration, ceremony, religion, festival, or even satire.
According to Bates and Ferri, entertaiment is an activity understood objectively; encompasses communication between text and audience from external stimulus; offers pleasure; requires an audience to exist and occurs in a passive form.