We consider quasilinear operators T of {\it joint weak type}
(a,b;p,q) (in the sense of [Bennett, Sharpley: Interpolation
of operators, Academic Press, 1988]) and study their properties
on spaces L_{\varphi,E} with the norm \|\varphi(t)f^*(t)
\|_{\tilde E}, where \tilde E is arbitrary rearrangement-invariant
space with respect to the measure dt/t. A space L_{\varphi,E}
is said to be ``close" to one of the endpoints of interpolation if
the corresponding Boyd index of this space is equal to 1/a or to
1/p. For all possible kinds of such ``closeness", we give sharp
estimates for the function \psi(t) so as to obtain that every
T:L_{\varphi,E}\to L_{\psi,E}.