No joke: Can Robin Williams score an Emmy tonight?
"Law & Order: SVU" celebrates its 200th episode tonight with an appearance by Robin Williams as a particularly devious villain. With good reviews for his star turn, this 1997 best supporting 
actor Oscar winner ("Good Will Hunting") could become the first guest actor in the show's nine seasons to score an Emmy nod.
This franchise has figured in the Emmy race from its first season, with 10 guest actresses being nominated and two winning -- Leslie Caron last year and Amanda Plummer in 2005. That win by Plummer meant that Angela Lansbury's reign as Emmy's biggest loser continued. The veteran actress had picked up her 18th nod for her own guest spot as a manipulative mother on "SVU" that season.
While Williams already has two Emmys on his mantle, those back-to- back wins in 1987 and 1988 were for individual performance in a variety or music program ("A Carol Burnett Special: Carol, Carl, Whoopi & Robin" and "A Royal Gala"). He did pick up a guest actor nod for his 1994 appearance on "Homicide: Life on the Street" but lost to Richard Kiley on "Picket Fences."
His last Emmy bids were for the HBO taping of his show "Robin Williams: Live on Broadway" in 2003. Surprisingly, Williams, a classically trained stage actor, has never appeared in a legitimate role on the rialto. Were he to do so, he might well find himself in the running for a Tony Award -- the only one of the big four he has yet to win. (He has five Grammys â four for comedy album and one for children's record.) Perhaps the prospect of becoming only the 11th person to win the grand slam will lure him back to Broadway.
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