--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
--Finals: Saturday, October 13, Cutler Majestic, 8:15 pm

During the last night of the preliminaries, many of the comics tore into their routines like it was the last show of their lives. Everyone is burning out after four days of endless stand-up shows, but the comics of the last preliminary round made it all worth it. Here's the winners, and don't forget to see who got robbed after the jump!

Preliminary Round Seven
The Winners: Tommy Savitt, Tom Simmons

The winners have similar names, but, if you saw them, you wouldn't mix them up. Savitt arrived onstage looking exactly like the kind of guy you don't want to date. He had sideburns and wore chains. He also looked greasy. Then he launched into a routine all about a sensitive New Age Guy gone horribly, horribly wrong.

Simmons brought the liberal humor. If you vote left and don't have a car, you'll love him. If you drive a Hummer, you'll hate his line about those who buy yellow Hummers: "Oh, look! They're buying their own shortbus!" He's also not afraid to make a few jokes about the state of affairs in Iraq and Afghanistan, where he's toured.

Preliminary Round Eight
The Winners: Bryan Kellen, Mike E. Winfield

Bryan Kellen was The Comedian Most Likely to Pull a Muscle Onstage. He came on with more backbends and moves than when Michael Richards played Kramer on Seinfeld, only with a little more sex. For example, Kellen threw in a bit about his jeans getting frayed from a round of "freak dancing" at the club.

Mike E. Winfield may as well have walked on the stage with a banner that said, "Semis Or Bust!" He killed with gags about how stupid it is to shoplift pregnancy tests ("You wouldn't be in this situation if you stole some condoms!") and his own appearance ("People think I'm happy because I got big-ass teeth!").

Image of Tom Simmons from his official site. Image of Mike E. Winfield from the Boston Comedy Festival site. Find out who got robbed after the jump!

Who Got Robbed, Round Seven: Selena Coppock, Erin Judge

Just a general note: The women are getting robbed. Some are funnier than others, but a good number of them are funny enough to make it to the semis. Unfortunately, you won't find them there. Coppock deserved to go not only for her jokes but for her guts. Well into her routine, she kicked off a joke about an ex-boyfriend from South Boston, and a guy in the audience yelled, "That's my brother!"

Bostonist overheard that it wasn't a complex joke--that guy really was her ex's brother. And Coppock, after making a few faces, did the joke anyway. Well played!

Judge went last--one of the worst spots because everyone's getting tired. But she triumphed with a weight joke. Normally, a comic making a diet joke is about as funny as a sharp stick in the eye (Kelly MacFarland being an exception), but Judge gave the routine a clever twist. After explaining to the audience that she is "the circa 1508 hottie package," she declared, "I got rid of the scale in my bathroom, and I replaced it with a shell!"

Who Got Robbed, Round Eight: Tony Moschetto, Tapan Trivedi

Moschetto must have barely missed advancing because he packed in more jokes in his five minutes than any other comic. He made fun of the pep talks he gives as a tennis coach to affluent kids: "How do you fire up a tennis team? They think you're poor! They think you don't have a summer home! They think both your parents work! Let's go!" You should also check out one of his shows to find what he has to say about pork.

Trivedi, a hyper Indian guy, went places many comics wouldn't dare to go--he managed to make a September 11 joke that elicited a laugh. He said that September 11 was his birthday, which he can't celebrate anymore: "If you saw a guy who looks like me celebrating his birthday, what would you do?" He might not have connected with the audience because he had a strong accent, but his timing was excellent.