Bailey herself talked about it on Critical Role this evening as well.
That was awesome, since I was tuned in to the Awards show right up until the Iwata tribute started, and when I saw Laura Bailey in an audience shot at the Awards, I was like "Aww...I guess she's not going to be on CritRole tonight!" A few minutes later, while they were doing the Iwata thing, I switched over because it was finally "Thursday yet," and a little after the top of the hour and time for the show.
As soon as I change channels on the Twitch stream, I hear, "we're waiting for Laura" and think "this is going to be a long wait..."
Then, just a few minutes later, there she is, rushing in, still in her cocktail dress from the Award show, (which was still totally going on when she arrived at CritRole,) sitting down and getting right into playing some D&D. She must've literally RUN out of the Awards show as soon as her bit was done to make it on the CritRole set that quick.
I love how dedicated the players on CritRole are to the show and their characters. Like how Ashley Johnson is Skyping in from the East Coast where she's filming her primetime NBC show, and staying up LATE to play D&D on CritRole. The last time Ashley was on previous to last nights episode it was one of those "oh it's Midnight here, that means it's 3AM on the East Coast...when do you have to be on set?" -- "My call time is at 6AM!" things. That really made me like Ashley a lot more than I already did from her work on TLOU.
The guys from Crit Juice (the other D&D podcast I listen to) also sometimes do this, with gigs/auditions the next morning. But it's even worse for them because their central show gimmick is mixing D&D with a listener-interactive drinking game, so they all get HAMMERED on booze while playing. Some of the resulting hangovers have to be epic. But they don't tape on a regular schedule like CritRole either.