The new Steven Soderbergh film starring Matt Damon The Informant doesn’t hit theaters until Oct. 9, but the first trailer just hit the Web. And if you didn’t know anything about the cast before today, you’ll be happily surprised to know there’s a handful of great stand-up comedians co-starring alongside Damon including Tom Papa, Joel McHale, Paul F. Tompkins, Patton Oswalt, Andrew Daly, Rick Overton, Bob Zany, Bil Dwyer and Jimmy Brogan.

The Patriot-Ledger in Quincy, MA describes the plot thusly:

Based on Kurt Eichenwald’s 2000 book, “The Informant” is the tale of Mark Whitacre (played by Matt Damon), an Ivy League Ph.D. who was a rising star at Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) in the early 1990s. The bipolar hero wound up blowing the whistle on the company’s price fixing tactics and became the highest-ranked executive to ever turn whistleblower in US history. Whitacre secretly gathered hundreds of hours of video and audio tapes over several years to present to the FBI which became one of the largest price fixing cases in history. 

We have to say, the movie looks highly entertaining and quite funny. We’ll be there — good or bad — if only to support some of our favorite comics.