The competition has been canceled in 2021 due to the corona virus. Lisa Ostermann won the competition in 2020. She won the professional jury award, the audience award and the student award with the program What the other wants to hear. The event was first organized in 1978. Since then, the Leids Cabaret Festival has produced countless top comedians, including Najib Amhali, Paulien Cornelisse, Dolf Jansen and Sanne Wallis de Vries.