Star Jason Biggs hosts the Netflix baking show

You might be wondering, “How did ‘American Pie’ star Jason Biggs land a TV job on ‘Blue Ribbon Baking Championship?’ on Netflix?”

The answer would be clear. Biggs is the star of the 1999 comedy “American Pie,” whose apple pie mishap spawned a franchise that spanned four major motion pictures. A smiling Biggs is shown holding a pie in scenes from “American Pie 2” (2001), “American Wedding” (2003) and “American Reunion” (2012).

Biggs, 46, is like pies, even if the New Jerseyian grew up far from the state festivities celebrated on the Netflix baking competition.

“The New Jersey State Fair takes place in the Giants Stadium parking lot. When people picture a state fair, New Jersey is not what they picture,” Biggs tells USA TODAY. “Jersey Shoes was my country fair growing up.”

The “food guy” with a strong recipe for banana bread is creating his own presentation of the host, appearing in the series “Dinner and a Movie” of TBS with the actress Jenny Mollen, his wife since 2008.

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“I really wanted to embrace something in the food world,” says Biggs. “Basically, there’s a wink on camera and the audience has me as the host of the baking show. And whenever I can’t think of what to say, I always there’s a pie joke in my back pocket that brings the house down.”