Comedian Eddie Griffin talks boxing lessons and politics (kinda)

A benefit of living in Las Vegas is you can talk Floyd Mayweather’s dad and uncle into teaching your kids how to box like a champ.

That’s what Rio headliner Eddie Griffin accomplished by taking one of his nine kids to the Mayweather gym. (Did you hear what I said? Nine kids.)

“I just want him to be able to take care of himself, you know what I mean? Because schools are wild nowadays,” the comedian told me.

But Griffin says his main message to kids is to study, to “stay in those books, and get your head in those damn words and math, young man, that is the future.”

Griffin performs regularly in the Rio. He told me he just re-upped his contract there.

But at 11 p.m. Saturday — after the big fight — Griffin also performs in the “Black and Brown Comedy Get Down” with his friends Cedric the Entertainer, Mike Epps, D.L. Hughley, George Lopez and Charlie Murphy ($70-$195).

Griffin has so many kids, he calls his Vegas house “the jellybean store.”

I told him having nine kids makes him seem like he’s from the early 1900s.

But he said the Kennedy and Bush families got him beat.

“Those (expletives) just want to have enough (kids) to spend all of the money they’ve stolen from all of us,” Griffin joked.

Speaking of politics, Griffin said America’s going to be a different place after President Obama leaves office.

“White people won’t have anybody to blame everything on, so they’ll have to go back to cussin’ each other out. You understand what I mean? ‘It’s rainin’ today. Obama! My electric bill got cut off. Obama did it! There was an earthquake in Brazil. O-bama!’”

Griffin and I both think we should be able to vote on our phones in addition to polling locations.

“If everybody could vote on their phone, the turnout would go up 4,000 million percent. It’s just that simple. Make it convenient,” he said.

“Even McDonald’s was smart enough to get a drive-through window.”

By the way, Griffin once joked he voted for Obama because he wants to get with Michelle Obama. He told me he’s still hoping for Michelle.

“Obama — he’s got two more years. He’s gonna (mess) up, she’s gonna need a shoulder to cry on, and I’m gonna be the man for the job.”

I don’t know how Michelle Obama would handle Griffin’s jellybean store, though.

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