2009 album from the comedian/musician.3 Balloons is Stephen"s first new album in over four years, featuring all-new material, and recorded in a studio: "My last two albums were recorded live in concert, just guitar and voice, and I wanted to do something different this time. Whenever I write or perform a new song, in my head I hear pianos and drums and tubas and string sections and jug bands and children"s choirs. I want you to hear those things too. Except we couldn"t find a children"s choir whose parents would let them sing about drug mules and transsexual prostitutes. Maybe next time."