“This isn’t a goodbye, this is an evolution,” founder Svetlana Legetic says.

It’s the 10th anniversary of the Brightest Young Things comedy festival.

Fugazi’s Brendan Canty will direct the New York transplant who once though Karl Rove was a sign of the end times.

Tig Notaro and Malcolm Gladwell will also be part of the panel providing live commentary to “UHF”, the 1989 cult comedy.

The annual comedy festival organized by BYT and curated by Tig Notaro opened with a performance that first made its appearance in the mid-90s.

DCist interviewed comedian Tig Notaro, curator of the 2014 Bentzen Ball, which begins tomorrow and runs through Sunday.

In between her mix of song, snark and scatological jokes, Sarah Silverman did a bit at the 9:30 Club on Sunday night where she let audience members ask her for advice, entertaining questions on everything from getting out of credit card debt to making it as a stand-up comic. If we learned one thing from this weekend’s impressive Bentzen Ball comedy festival, presented by Brightest Young Things and curated by fantastic stand-up Tig Notaro, it’s…

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…