A quick blurb in the Februay 2006 edition of Discover Magazine explains why many women don’t find Adam Sandler funny.

To understand how the brain reacts to humor, Reiss and his team had test subjects rate the hilarity of cartoons while undergoing fMRI brain scans. Although men and women described the cartoons as equally funny, the areas of their brains that lit up as a result differed. Women activated the left prefrontal cortex more than men, indicating that their processing of humor is rooted more heavily in language. This explains why women are more likely to appreciate wordplay over, say, the slapstick antics of a dim-witted water boy. Reiss also found that women showed a stronger response in the nucleus accumbens, the brain’s reward center, suggesting that they ultimately derived bigger pleasure hits from punch lines.

I wonder where I fit in. I happen to -like- most Adam Sandler films.