--Preliminaries: Tuesday, October 9, Comedy Connection, Faneuil Hall, 7:00 and 9:00 pm
--Preliminaries: Wednesday, October 10, Comedy Connection, Faneuil Hall, 7:00 and 9:00 pm
--Urban Comedy Showcase: Wednesday, October 10, Roxbury Center for Arts at Hibernian Hall, 8:00 pm
--Semi-Finals: Thursday, October 11, Nick's Comedy Stop (Upstairs), 8:30 pm
--Semi-Finals: Friday, October 12, Nick's Comedy Stop (Upstairs), 8:30 pm

Now that we've warmed up, we'll get right to last night's results. For more on how the Comedy Contest is judged, read Bostonist's first post, and keep track of the comedians through the Boston Comedy Festival Contest bracket. And find out who we thought got robbed after the jump!

Preliminary Round Three

The Winners: Myq Kaplan, Jim Tews

Kaplan was going in as a local favorite, and he definitely exhibited one of the most polished stage presences of the night. His comedy focuses on the small stuff, such as which preposition is the gayest (definitely "betwixt") and how losing a cell phone is similar to losing a small child.

Jim Tews had an interesting platform--instead of being the ethnic comic or the liberal comic, he's the former Coast Guard comic. Bostonist also felt that Tews had the best line of the night, in which he informs his mother that the taste of baloney is the taste of failure.

Preliminary Round Four

The Winners: Tom Dustin, Bryan Hamilton

Dustin was one of the more creative performers who specializes in "too much information" humor. He told us all about why lesbians like him and why the words "Wait … I … have" is never good news in bed.

Bryan Hamilton's humor addressed the fact that he is huge and could kick your ass. But he surprised the audience with a joke about how the parents of his daughter's gymnastic-class cohorts didn't think he could do a cartwheel. And, by golly, this huge guy did a cartwheel on stage without injuring himself or any audience members.

Image of Myq Kaplan from his official website. Blurry cell-phone image of Bryan Hamilton from his MySpace page, which Bostonist went with because it best represents his overall vibe.

Who Got Robbed, Round 3: Peter Bowers, Corey Manning

The dapper Bowers was one of the oldest comics in the competition, and he made the most of being a) old and b) British. He wrapped both those schticks up in one joke about how putting Viagra in his Chapstick helps him keep his classic "stiff upper lip."

Manning was dead-on with tech humor, launching into jokes about how he just loves to Google. The audience fell apart at his joke about a person who wants to be "buttlicker" on adultfriendfinder, yet that person discovers they have to settle for "buttlicker6." Manning will appear tomorrow at the Urban Comedy Showcase (details above).

Who Got Robbed, Round 4: Vanessa Graddick, Micah Sherman

Graddick is a social worker from LA county, and she draws on that experience with a gag about her daddy issues. She also addressed one of the more universal friendship issues, such as what to do when one's friends "overshoot" and aim for men out of their league. Graddick will appear at the Urban Comedy Showcase (details above).

Sherman partners with Myq Kaplan. His routine was one of the most clever of the night by far. It's easy to get laughs by mentioning vibrators and online sex sites, but Sherman found the humor in the behavior of moths. The moths who prefer an open flame are definitely Amish. Now, who thinks of that stuff? Definite points for originality.

And Bostonist can't finish without a mention of Shane Mauss, who has received oodles of press and tv time. He didn't advance, but we're not sure if he was robbed or not since he's already sort of famous. He probably didn't move on because he spent five minutes (well, maybe four-and-a-half minutes) talking about the difficulties of anal sex. And five minutes is a mighty long time to be talking about anal sex, no matter how funny you are.