Over 60 comics are about to descend on D.C. for the Bentzen Ball, a four day collection of comedy performances at venues ranging from the 9:30 Club and the Black Cat to the Studio and Lincoln Theatres, and even Ben’s Chili Bowl. Presented by our friends over at Brightest Young Things, and curated by comic Tig Notaro, it surely must be the biggest comedy festival to ever hit the nation’s capital.

Plenty of big names are on the schedule, among them festival opener and local boy made good Patton Oswalt (whom we interviewed earlier this year), and Sarah Silverman, who performs at the final show at the 9:30 Club on Sunday. Silverman has been busy lately, to say the least, just finishing up shooting the third season of Comedy Central’s The Sarah Silverman Program, as well as initiating a bold new campaign to end world hunger. In between all that, she was kind enough to answer a few brief questions from DCist.

What do you enjoy doing most these days? Stand-up, TV, film?

Right now I’ve been working on the TV show for six months, and my stand up is so shitty, because I haven’t been doing it enough. I need to take some time and go to NYC and work stuff out and get back on track.

Your act, whether your stand-up or your show, is very much about a making a caricature of yourself; how much of the real you makes it into that caricature? How do you decide where that line is?

I don’t think too much about it. I would say my character on the show is more Bugs Bunny than me.