"If you sound like crap, nobody wants to hear that," she says. "This is a performance, right? We don't want to give people 70 or 80 percent." The show used to have makeup artists come to the studio when we did live tapings because the HD was so unforgiving. Now, if we can make ourselves look a little bit better here on the margins with the touch up, why can't we do that with somebody who has a cough in their throat?"

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