light entertainment

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Kelly was a journalist who later pivoted to light entertainment, hosting TV gameshow Game For A Laugh and Going For Gold in the 1980s and 90s.

From BBC • Feb. 26, 2025

A natural-born crowd-pleaser, Dennis will always be the cheery, cheeky face of light entertainment.

From BBC • Jun. 7, 2024

Throughout his long career, Jewison combined light entertainment with topical films that appealed to him on a deeply personal level.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 22, 2024

Lincoln was no supper-club singer, uninterested in light entertainment, and more concerned with shaking an audience into consciousness.

From New York Times • Jul. 5, 2023

Tsunayoshi lectured upon the "Doctrine of the Mean," and Yasuaki on the Confucian "Analects," and after these learned discourses a Sarugaku play, or some other form of light entertainment, was organized.

From A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era by Brinkley, F. (Frank)