Men and women crack different jokes

I read a fascinating article in The International Journal of Humour Research (what don't we research?). Unfortunately you have to pay to see it, but the gist of it is that men and women cartoonists  make different types of jokes. Women use more text and more panels. Men prefer nonsense humour over women preferring incongruity-resolution humour.

So if that gender difference is not peculiar to cartoonists, what does this mean in the workplace? Is what women think boring or inappropriate humour, just exactly what men love to hear?

And even more interesting, if as Dan Pink suggests in Whole New Mind effective bosses make us laugh more often, do women need to grow ways of making humour happen for both genders? Maybe the humour divide is the glass ceiling, just to mix metaphors? 

If you have half an hour, go listen to this podcast on laughter from Radio Lab. They talk to researchers in laughter, outline how much laughter a human thing, how laughing affects us, and all about contagious laughter.