“Caleb,” as played by Fred Armisen

As much as IFC’s Portlandia is a riff on the iconic Oregon city, it’s more broadly a poke at urban millennials and the many things we do. In that, D.C. doesn’t escape the show’s humor: we pickle things, ride fixed-gear bikes, love good coffee, and aggregate the news.

But one recent sketch on the show hits particularly close to home. In the sketch, which aired Friday, a Portland magazine wants to feature a man doing manly things for its annual issue on men. One of the magazine’s writers says she has a lead on Caleb, a man who quit his day job to make furniture. The episode intersperses clips of her tracking Caleb down with clips of Caleb making furniture, which, it turns out, isn’t particularly good. Still, the point stands: in hipsterdom, making furniture is manly.

Hilarious, right? Sure, but even more so if you’re actually Caleb Woodard, the D.C. man who in 2005 left his office job as a senior manager at a trade association in Arlington to make furniture for a living.

The real Caleb

OK, so it could all be a coincidence, right? Maybe, but it becomes less likely when you consider that just like the fictional Caleb played by Fred Armisen, real Caleb actually built the crib used by his one-year-old son. And when you put Armisen’s Caleb against the real Caleb, well, they look exactly the same.

But was it just chance that Portlandia managed to dig up Woodard’s life and proceed to make fun of it? Probably not. Armisen’s co-star Carrie Brownstein is a member of Wild Flag, a band that features D.C. native Mary Timony. She could have tipped Brownstein off to Woodard; he’s been featured in DC Magazine and the Washingtonian, after all.

As for how Caleb is taking it, his wife Melanie writes us that they found the sketch “completely hysterical.”

“We have been huge fans of the show and can’t believe this whole thing,” she said.