How to Be a Complete Bastard


How to be a Complete Bastard is a 1986 book by Adrian Edmondson, Mark Leigh and Mike Lepine.
The book was a spin-off from Adrian Edmondson's character Sir Adrian Dangerous one of the Dangerous Brothers, a TV and stage show performed with Rik Mayall and contained a selection of ways to be a "complete bastard" to those around you. Some examples are:
  • "How to be a Bastard Student:" Join the Free Nelson Mandela Society today to claim your free Nelson Mandela. '
  • "How to be a Bastard Parent:" Things babies are good for: Filling their pants with shit. Put on an Iron Maiden album 2) Listen to it at full volume
  • "How to be a Complete Bastard to the Deaf:" Go like this: ' Alternatively, go like this:
It was followed up with How to be a Complete Bitch by Pamela Stephenson with Leigh and Lepine in 1987, and The Complete Bastard's [Book of the Worst], again written by Edmondson, in 1988.
The book was also turned into a video game for ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC and Commodore 64, as well as a board game published by Paul Lamond Games Ltd.