From the Old French entretenir, meaning hold together or support, entertainment came to mean hospitality and eventually was used more generally for something that affords pleasure, diversion, amusement, or distraction. A clown at a birthday party, a Broadway show, your friends fighting over the last potato chip—all of these are forms of entertainment. Today, with the emergence of new media and ever-increasing global audiences, entertainment can be designed for any scale: an individual who selects their own private entertainment from a wide array of pre-recorded products; a banquet adapted to two; a stadium rock concert for thousands; or a satirical play written to entertain the masses.