The phrase "a proper laugh" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation or event that is genuinely funny or enjoyable, often in a lighthearted context.
Example: "After a long week at work, we finally had a proper laugh at the comedy show last night."
Alternatives: "a good laugh" or "a real laugh".
Beryl and Betty, on BBC Radio Humberside, is a Saturday-evening institution and a proper laugh a minute.
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Conversely, Ed Liu of Toon Zone was critical of the episode and other early episodes available on The Fast and the Phineas, calling them "way too manic for their own good, never giving a gag enough time to develop a proper laugh before ripping off to the next one, and refusing to sit still for any length of time".
Ed Liu, of Toon Zone, wrote that the episode and others included on the DVD The Fast and the Phineas were "way too manic for their own good, never giving a gag enough time to develop a proper laugh before ripping off to the next one," but considered Phineas's "He's a Bully" training montage to be one of the series' "amusing video sequences".
"I know we've had this loads of times, but which member of Def Leppard gave his 80s hair to Carlos Puyol?" wonders Mike Wilner, just one swannee-whistle sound short of delivering a proper belly laugh.
It's gonna be a proper belly laugh. .
I tell you what I'm going to do: I'm going to kick your shins and rip your sleeping bag away because that'll be a proper fucking laugh".
According to the article, The funeral homes Jessica called for a "proper burial" laughed at her, or hung up "because I mentioned the word 'termination,'" she said.
It is very rare for an actual prize-winner to get proper laughs, which here were at least partly a tribute to the recipient's confidence and sang-froid in having brought off an effective joke when all that was expected was slush.
On Day 114 he had his first proper laughing fit when his uncle pretended to be a duck.
She just giggled and observed, leaving the real life, the proper laughs, to those who welcomed her in.
