Rick Cleveland, besides being a writer for The West Wing and Six Feet Under, is buddies with former United States President William Jefferson Clinton, as he explains in detail for his upcoming Comedy Central special Rick Cleveland's My Buddy Bill, premiering this Thursday (Feb, 7) at midnight.

Today (Monday) is tense. No matter where I take Bill, he can not stay off his cell phone. And then when we're hiking up in Topanga, his cell phone drops a call and he smashes it against a rock. Ten minutes later a Secret Service Agent brings him a new one, and we cut our hike short.

Bill is onto the whole "keeping him on the down low" before Super Tuesday, and he's not happy about it, not one bit. I call Billy Bob and he invites us over – and for a few hours we "jam" – Billy Bob on guitar and vocals, Bill on tenor sax, and me on drums. Finally Bill gets lost in the music and forgets about his cell phone. We play "That Smell," "Simple Man," ZZ Top's "Fandango," some Billy Bob originals and a couple of White Stripes tunes which Bill says he's familiar with but Billy Bob and I can tell he isn't. Later, Billy Bob screens some movies of his — "Pushing Tin," and "Armageddon" and "Bad Santa." Bill (Clinton) loves "Armageddon."

We eat fried bologna sandwiches with yucca fries and diet cokes, but by 3 p.m. Bill is getting antsy and finally he says he has to go, telling us he has a "campaign to run." He asks us who we're planning on voting for, and when we hem and haw and he senses that we might be leaning toward Obama, he nails us with a fifteen minute monologue about how he's going to win — he doesn't say Hillary's going to win — and how this will be his "third term" and that it's his destiny.

Billy Bob and I sneak a look at one another but we dare don't say anything. One of the Secret Service Agents notices, though — he talks into a little walkie-talkie mike thing near his cuff-link, and ten minutes later, Clinton's physician shows up and gives Bill an injection — Bill tells us it's just a B-12 booster.

Man, tomorrow is the Big Day here in California, and it might just get ugly…

Here's a clip from Rick's upcoming special, Rick Cleveland's My Buddy Bill.