Dark but funny childhood memoirs

I wasn't going to read Angela's Ashes for the Irish reading project, because we're not going to Limerick, where much of it is set. But I decided to get the audio book read by the author Frank McCourt from the library, to liven up my commute. It's a pretty humorous memoir of a truly disturbing childhood. Maybe someone should write a doctoral thesis comparing it with similar memoirs The Glass Castle and Running with Scissors.

So here's my favorite part so far. A school master is chastising his students for making fun of the narrator Frank, who has to wear shoddily patched shoes to school, because he's so poor:

He says, There are boys here who have to mend their shoes whatever way they can. There are boys in this class with no shoes at all. It's not their fault and it's no shame. Our Lord had no shoes. Our Lord died shoeless. Do you see Him hanging on the cross sporting shoes? Do you, boys?
No, sir.
What don't you see him doing?
Hanging on the cross sporting shoes, sir.

Then the teacher threatens to wallop them all with a switch.